Re: domainname question

[christian pearce]

I don't specify a domain.  I haven't had an issue with it since I
moved to cfengine version 2 where the authentication was moved to a
public key based system.

On 2/14/06, paul beard <paulbeard@mac.com> wrote:
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> reading over a piece on cfengine at O'Reilly, the importance of
> matching domain names was stressed. I don't have a case where I plan
> to use cfengine in multiple domains, but I discovered that none of
> the systems I am trying to get cfengine working on -- at a publicly
> accessible site in a colocation facility and here at my house -- have
> domainname set. They have a valid FQDN and are in the hosts file with
> both the FQDN and their hostname, but if I were to run /bin/
> domainname, I get bupkis.
>
> (22:16:42 <~>) 0 # domainname
>
> (22:16:43 <~>) 0 # /bin/hostname
> int0.*******.com
> (22:16:57 <~>) 0 #
>
> I set the domain name in the *.conf files, so it's not like there is
> a mismatch there. But if the internals of cfengine are trying to pull
> out a domainname programmatically, am I doomed?
> - --
> Paul Beard
> contact info: www.paulbeard.org/paulbeard.vcf
>
> Are you trying to win an argument or solve a problem?
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Christian Pearce