[rsyslog] How rsyslog derives hostname

[Sayan Chowdhury]

Hello Harry,
Look at your /etc/host.conf file, it's most probably set up to look at the
/etc/hosts file before the name servers.
Regards,
Sayan

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Rainer Gerhards
<rgerhards at hq.adiscon.com>wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rsyslog-bounces at lists.adiscon.com [mailto:rsyslog-
> > bounces at lists.adiscon.com] On Behalf Of Harry Putnam
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 6:01 PM
> > To: rsyslog at lists.adiscon.com
> > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] How rsyslog derives hostname
> >
> > "Rainer Gerhards" <rgerhards at hq.adiscon.com> writes:
> >
> > >> He says rsyslog exclusively relies on what is returned by the os.
> > Yes
> > >> but by what mechanism?
> > >
> > > gethostname(), what according to the man page is the mechanism to use
> > ;)
> > >
> > >
> > http://git.adiscon.com/?p=rsyslog.git;a=blob;f=runtime/net.c;h=ab431f7c
> > ddfda4
> > > 1b689e6ab4819b5ffe031e52fb;hb=HEAD#l1331
> >
> > Looks pretty complicated... gack.
> >
> > Thanks... Apparently somewhere in the workings of gethostname() the
> > /etc/hosts file is scanned.
>
> My (uneducated) guess is that this is distro/version specific.
>
> Raienr
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