Thanks, but unfortuantely this is not so. On this machine I have: /bin/hostname amd1 Kevin On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 6:37 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 18:08:09 +0300, Kevin Wilson said: > >> Jun 24 03:43:06 localhost kernel: [ 1858.148661] in my_func1 >> >> where is the "localhost" from ? > > That's added by your syslog daemon (whatever that might be). It's > basically the value returned by /bin/hostname > >> machines on which the hostname appeared instead of localhost > > That's because they had hostname set to something else, and you have it > set to 'localhost' > _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies