[Logcheck-devel] Bug#314951: logcheck prints error message if system hostname not resolvable

Jamie L. Penman-Smithson jamie at silverdream.org
Sun Jun 19 18:32:00 UTC 2005


package logcheck
tags 314951 wontfix
thanks

On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 17:44 +0200, Thomas Hood wrote:
> root at thanatos:# su -s /bin/bash -c "/usr/sbin/logcheck" logcheck >/dev/null
> hostname: Unknown host
> root at thanatos:# echo $?
> 0

This is a problem with your system, not logcheck. You need to ensure
that your systems hostname and its IP address is listed in /etc/hosts. I
seem to remember this being done by default with a new install, so I'm
not sure why you're any different.

-j
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