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Tue, 15 Mar 2016 17:38:36 +0000
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Re: Setting hostname
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On Tue, 15 Mar 2016, Loris Bennett wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using ansible to set up two servers and have run into the problem
> that on one server 'hostname' returns the just the name of the machine,
> but on the other I get the FQDN:
>
> # hostname -s; hostname -d; hostname -f; hostname
> tadmin01
> test.cluster
> tadmin01.test.cluster
> tadmin01
>
> # hostname -s; hostname -d; hostname -f; hostname
> tadmin02
> test.cluster
> tadmin02.test.cluster
> tadmin02.test.cluster

Does
 	type hostname
give the same result on both machines ?

> The following files are identical on both servers
>
> /etc/hosts
> /etc/resolv.conf
>
> The files
>
> /etc/sysconfig/network
 		...		...
> What other files could have an influence on what 'hostname' returns?

"man hostname" suggests a few more files that could be relevant.

-- 
Andrew C. Aitchison

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