Per you are sooo right. Silly me, I was changing /etc/sysconfig/network, rebooting, and not even thinking about the /etc/hosts file. Egg on my face! Have a nice weekend, Dave ------- Per Qvindesland wrote: > Check your /etc/host file and make sure that it says the correct ip > address and hostname > > Per > > --- Original message follows --- > *Subject: *[389-users] Changed hostname of machine. FDS Admin > Server FAILS to start: Could not reliably determine the server's > fully qualified domain name > *From: *"David (Dave) Donnan" <david.donnan at thalesgroup.com> > *To: *"Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com" > <Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com> > *Date: *15-05-2009 13:06 > > > Hello everybody and thanks for the continued support. It's incredible. > > I thought I'd be clever and installed my FDS on a machine with a > hostname of localhost.localdomain > > When I rename it to it's proper hostname, a.b.c, the admin server > FAILS when I start it: > > ./dirsrv-admin start > Starting dirsrv-admin: > httpd.worker: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for a.b.c > httpd.worker: Could not reliably determine the server's > fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName > > [FAILED] > > Honestly, I've tried everything I can think of, for example: > > - hacking /etc/init.d/dirsrv-admin > - hacking /etc/dirsrv/admin-serv/httpd.conf specifically the > variable: ServerName a.b.c:390 > - hacking /usr/sbin/start-ds-admin > ... > > Q1. Can anyone recommend a solution ? > > Thanks, Dave > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20090515/8bc7a9e9/attachment.html
