On Tue, Jul 22, 2008, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> Bill Campbell wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008, Jim Perrin wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Bill Campbell <centos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is there any reason why /etc/hosts would be missing the line,
>>>> 127.0.0.1 localhost?
>>>>
>>> Nope. It's there by default in some form or another.
>>>
>>> By default, it usually looks like this ->
>>>
>>> 127.0.0.1 installname localhost.localdomain localhost
>>> ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
>>>
>>> If you don't have anything like this in your /etc/hosts, you either
>>> need to find a mirror and begin yelling at responsible parties, or
>>> stalk whomever else has root on this particular machine.
>>>
>>
>> I guess I could yell at myself as I'm doing kickstart installs from
>> a local mirror.
>>
>> I found the same thing on two CentOS 5.1 installs here, one on a
>> VMware VM, the other on real iron. The wierd thing is that the
>> base VMware VM I have that I copy to create new VMs looks OK.
>> Now I'm going to have to poke around to see what's causing this
>> line to be deleted.
>>
>> Bill
>>
> I had a similar problem using OpenVZ images, installed from kickstart -
> almost like it's leaving some stuff out by default. So I ended up
> creating the file manually and adding it to the kickstart file to be
> copied over.
The file was OK after the kickstart install, and after a ``yum update''.
We install about 240 packages under the OpenPKG portable package management
system which may have caused this, but I have not seen this problem prior
to CentOS 5.2.
I did not check to see the status of the /etc/hosts file after configuring
the network with system-config-network, and before installing OpenPKG and
its packages. I may create a new VM, and run through the network
configuration etc. to see where this is happening (VMware snapshots and
revert sure simplify things like this :-).
Bill
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