remove localhost from /etc/hosts??
Bill Davidsen
davidsen at tmr.com
Fri Jan 22 23:27:51 UTC 2010
Neal Becker wrote:
> Neal Becker wrote:
>
>> Installing gridengine seems to fail with:
>> Starting qmaster installation!
>> Hostname: nbecker6
>> Aliases: localhost.localdomain localhost
>> Host Address(es): 127.0.0.1
>>
>>
>> The current hostname is resolved as follows:
>>
>> Hostname: nbecker6
>> Aliases: localhost.localdomain localhost
>> Host Address(es): 127.0.0.1
>>
>> It is not supported for a Grid Engine installation that the local hostname
>> contains the hostname "localhost" and/or the IP address "127.0.x.x" of the
>> loopback interface.
>> The "localhost" hostname should be reserved for the loopback interface
>> ("127.0.0.1") and the real hostname should be assigned to one of the
>> physical or logical network interfaces of this machine.
>>
>> Installation failed.
>>
>> /etc/hosts says:
>> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
>> # that require network functionality will fail.
>> 127.0.0.1 nbecker6 localhost.localdomain localhost
>> ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
>>
>> What's the deal here? I thought that removing localhost would, as the
>> comment in /etc/hosts says, cause lots of problems with various
>> applications.
>>
>
> Actually, I misread that. It wants to remove the actual hostname 'nbecker6'
> and leave only
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
>
You can drop the localhost.localdomain entry, don't drop localhost.
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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