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