Hi Andrew, Andrew C Aitchison <[log in to unmask]> writes: > 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 ? Yes, in both cases I get # type hostname hostname is /bin/hostname >> 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. OK, I've checked /etc/nsswitch.conf /etc/hosts /etc/host.conf all those and there are no differences. /etc/sysconfig/network differ only by < HOSTNAME=tadmin01 --- > HOSTNAME=tadmin02 So I'm still confused. Cheers, Loris -- This signature is currently under construction.