Hello:
I’ve set my hostname as: ABC and domainname: EDF by YAST
I found that when I use command ‘hostname’ in terminal, it said:
ABC
But I expect it should be ABC.EDF which also display the domain name…
Does anybody how to do this?
THX
I would expect it to say ABC not ABC.EDF. If you want the hostname command to show the domain as well use
$ hostname -fFor more info see
$ hostname --help
$ man hostname
Hi
Use hostname -f (hostname --help 
)
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Thank you very much for your kind reply.
but my academic software was licensed to a machine named “ABC.DEF” which showned in SLES 10. When I update the system into 11, my academic software claimed my machine name is “ABC” not “ABC.DEF” and the license server cannot be started…
THX
[QUOTE=malcolmlewis;2416]Hi
Use hostname -f (hostname --help 
)
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 3.0.13-0.19-default
up 1 day 22:37, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05
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[QUOTE=mikewillis;2415]I would expect it to say ABC not ABC.EDF. If you want the hostname command to show the domain as well use
$ hostname -fFor more info see
$ hostname --help
$ man hostname[/QUOTE]
in fact, it doesn’t work with command: hostname -f
it said in terminal:
hostname: Unknown host
Hi
So what about the other hostname options any output? Can you check it’s
set;
fgrep -r "ABC" /etc/*Where ABC is your hostname, also swap for your domain name.
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On 16/02/2012 05:54, albumns wrote:
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in fact, it doesn’t work with command: hostname -f
it said in terminal:
hostname: Unknown host[/color]
I can confirm on SLES11 SP1 that hostname -f a) works, and b) works
correctly provided /etc/hosts has the correct entry in the form
IP-Address Full-Qualified-Hostname Short-Hostname
With a default install (plus OES11) the entry for my host was
IP-Address Short-Hostname Short-Hostname
so whilst hostname correctly returned Short-Hostname, hostname -f also
returned Short-Hostname whilst hostname -d returned nothing. Editing the
/etc/hosts entry to append domain to first Short-HostName value “fixed”
the output of both hostname -f and hostname -d.
HTH.
Simon
Novell/SUSE/NetIQ Knowledge Partner