On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 7:09 PM, David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 1 Nov 2009, Jeremy Katz wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 6:20 PM, David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Adding the user-specified hostname to the 127.0.0.1 line is breaking >>> virt systems, among other things. I'm not entirely sure we need this >>> functionality anymore (faking the hostname as 127.0.0.1). >> >> Can you try booting a system with the hostname set to something which >> is unresolvable and see if httpd and/or sendmail hang/take forever on >> startup? I think those were the main things which were unhappy at one >> point with not being able to resolve the hostname. >> > Looks like those hangs are finally gone. Both sendmail and httpd start up > just fine with the /etc/hosts file as provided by the setup RPM and hostname > set to 'unreachablehost' (which is not configured on my LAN to resolve to > anything). Hooray! And some of the last vestiges of severe "WTF" inspiring code can go away. Thanks for double-checking it - Jeremy _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
