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Old 02-26-2012
Error hostname command prints nothing a null value
Hi ,

On my box everything works fine. But whenever I run command

Quote:
[root@(none) ~]#/bin/hostname
[root@(none) ~]#
It returns nothing as you see @(none) too.

Quote:
[root@(none) ~]# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
::1 localhost localhost.localdomain
192.168.144.128 localhost localhost.localdomain

[root@(none) ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME="localhost.localdomain"
[root@(none) ~]#

[root@(none) ~]# printenv | less
HOSTNAME=
SELINUX_ROLE_REQUESTED=
TERM=xterm
SHELL=/bin/bash
HISTSIZE=1000


[root@(none) ~]# which hostname
/bin/hostname
[root@(none) ~]#


[root@(none) ~]# cat /etc/HOSTNAME
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain

[root@(none) ~]# /bin/hostname localhost.localdomain
[root@(none) ~]# hostname
[root@(none) ~]#

Its very strange issue I have never noticed on any other system yet.

Any one have any idea about this.

Thank you
Last edited by pratapsingh; 02-26-2012 at 08:54 AM..
# 2  
Old 02-26-2012
Code:
system network restart

# 3  
Old 02-27-2012
Thanks for your reply I found the solution and it was nothing with my setting it was due to the rpm package "net-tool". I just upgraded it using yum and it got fixed .

Also I found that file "/bin/hostname" was an empty file.

Thank you
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