On 19 Nov 2002, Hunter Matthews wrote: > Has anyone else noticed that when doing a dhcp based kickstart, they end > up with an /etc/hosts with > > 127.0.0.1 dhcp_name localhost.localdomain localhost > > Our mail admin recently made a change to sendmail that caused every > message from these machines to boucnce. I assumed it was my > configuration of sendmail (which is the config redhat ships, > unmodified). By looking at the machines which bounced versus which > didn't, I eventually found this line to be the culprit. > > Any idea if kickstart (or dhcpcd) can be told not to do this? The last line of the script is a dot. I think RH's mail service is broken (use to be) and will chop it off. Nothing matters after that. [summer@gw summer]$ cat /var/ftp/pub/linux/RedHat/7.3/ks/postinstall/03fixhosts #!/bin/bash #InstallType: client server ed /etc/hosts <<. H /$HOSTNAME/s=$HOSTNAME== w q
