syslogd not able to resolve hostname

[KPS]

Hi,

We just built a new server via Ignite and the syslogd daemon is running, but not able to understand what the hostname is. We have changed the hostname and made respective changed in /etc/hosts. Here is the message that we get in the syslog.log:

May 2 10:38:32 syslogd: unknown host loghost

Anything else that we're missing here???

[Mel Burslan]

did you do an interactive ignite install, i.e., at the install time, were you asked what the new IP address and the hostname will be for the new host or just dumped the image onto the new server and changed the ip address and name in hosts file only ? If the latter is the case, there are some more steps to be taken care of. Best remedy is to use the /sbin/set_parms utility. Note that when it completes, it will require a reboot.

HTH

[Rick Garland]

There are other places in which the hostname plays a role, example, in the networking setup.

Run the 'set_parm' executable and this will catch all the places where hostname needs to be changed

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

You need to change the 127.0.0.1 entry in /etc/hosts to this:

127.0.0.1 localhost loopback loghost localhost.yourdomain.com loopback.yourdomain.com loghost.youromain.com


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harry d brown jr

[KPS]

adding the loghost entry to my 127.0.0.1 line in /etc/hosts did the trick.


Thanks everyone,
KPS