[Logcheck-users] hostname problem

[David Nicholls]

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Hello There,

I'm using logcheck 1.2.39 on Debian Sarge.

On the emails I am getting from logcheck, some of the servers are not
correctly reporting their hostnames. There is no obvious difference in
the configuration of the servers that report the correct hostname and
those that don't.

I took a looksee at the /usr/sbin/logcheck code and see that the
relevant section is:

# Get the details for the email message
# Hostname either fully qualified or not.
if [ -z "$FQDN" ]; then
    HOSTNAME="$(hostname --short)"
else
    HOSTNAME="$(hostname --fqdn)"
fi


Trying commands directly from the command line:

hostname gives officefirewall
hostname --short gives localhost
hostname --fqdn gives localhost.localdomain

I just wondered if anyone had an idea asto what the problem might be.

Thanks,

Dave
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