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Hi again...<br />
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FYI:<br />
<br />
You should always have:<br />
<br />
IP fqdn hostname<br />
<br />
in /etc/hosts. &nbsp;That's the technically correct way and mailservers and other services will often rely on it to be that way, else a lot of them will break.<br />
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Hi,<br />
<br />
this could also be because your DNS returns FQDN, <br />
and in your /etc/nsswitch.conf you have dns before files.<br />
<br />
You should swap the hostname entries in your /etc/hosts as you wrote,<br />
and take care to have files before dns in /etc/nsswitch.conf.<br />
<br />
wmp<br />
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<i></i>... forget that DNS stuff I wrote. I just saw it's <i>hostname</i> and not <i>host</i>!<br />

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at your: /etc/resolve.conf<br />
remove domain1.com<br />
<br />
but not advisable, you should change it only, eq: net<br />
so it will make a fqdn hostname1.net, when you type hostname.<br />
<br />
at your /etc/hosts, remove also the domain1.com, that if you really want too.
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You can set your host name in /etc/sysctl.conf file if you wish.<br />
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For example at the end of the file add a line like this:<br />
kernel.hostname = hostname1
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editing resolv.conf didn't work and nsswitch.conf is correct too<br />
i am hesitating to modify /etc/hosts as suggested by Uberpappa. I donot want to break anything because of this.<br />
Any work arounds?<br />
Thanks<br />

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Forgot to mention that changes to the sysctl.conf file take effect at boot time.
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Hi<br />
When I enter the command hostname output is <br />
hostname1.domain1.com<br />
but I wanted hostname to return just<br />
hostname1<br />
/etc/hosts has this format<br />
ip &nbsp; &nbsp; fqdn &nbsp; &nbsp;hostname<br />
should i change this to <br />
ip &nbsp; &nbsp;hostname &nbsp; fqdn<br />
<br />
What should be done.<br />
OS is RHEL 5.2<br />
<br />
Thanks in advance
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Hi
When I enter the command hostname output is 
hostname1.domain1.com
but I wanted hostname to return just
hostname1
/etc/hosts has this format
ip     fqdn    hostname
should i change this to 
ip    hostname   fqdn

What should be done.
OS is RHEL 5.2

Thanks in advance

hostname returning FQDN, what should be done for hostname to return just hostname

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