My machine != localhost.localdomain?

[Robert Locke]

On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 20:53 -0500, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Frank Cox wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:56:30 -0500 (CDT)
> > Gilbert Sebenste <sebenste at weather3.admin.niu.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Thanks Frank and Rick, but this didn't solve my problem. Indeed, the
> >> /etc/hosts file was messed up, so I fixed it, rebooted, and I still get
> >> the same warning message. Gotta be another place where it's messed up...
> >
> > Post your /etc/hosts and /etc/sysconfig/network files.
> 
> /etc/hosts:
> 
> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> # that require network functionality will fail.
> 127.0.0.1       weather.admin.niu.edu   weather localhost.localdomain   localhost
> ::1     localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
> 
> /etc/sysconfig/network:
> 
> NETWORKING=yes
> HOSTNAME=weather.admin.niu.edu
> 

Not sure if this will work, but try swapping the order in /etc/hosts so
it looks like:

127.0.0.1  localhost.localdomain localhost weather.admin.niu.edu weather

Something might be doing a reverse lookup and getting upset at the
"first name" not being localhost.localdomain....

HTH,

--Rob