remove localhost from /etc/hosts??
Konstantin Svist
fry.kun at gmail.com
Fri Jan 22 00:18:18 UTC 2010
On 01/21/2010 04:09 PM, 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.
>
>
It wants you to separate it into:
127.0.0.1 localhost...
192.168.... nbecker6
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