hostname

[Davide]

Hi

In the following example machine:

machine.domain.com

what should be "hostname", "hostname -d" and "hostname -f" answers on an ispconfig system?

My answers are:

hostname : machine.domain.com
hostname -f: machine
hostname -d: (nothing)

and I suspect this is not correct.

Shouldn't it be

hostname: machine
hostname -f: machine.domain.com?

Thankyou very much

[todvard]

hostname -f should be you Fully Qualified Domain Name (fqdn), eg. host.domain.tld.
1st question: which distribution are you using
2. what are the contents of /etc/hosts, /etc/host.conf, /etc/hostname files

the answers should be:
hostname: host.domain.tld
hostname -d: domain.tld
hostname -f: host.domain.tld

T.

[Davide]

I reversed order in /etc/hosts, from

x.x.x.x machine machine.domain.com domain.com

to

x.x.x.x machine.domain.com machine domain.com

Everything is working now as you suggests

hostname: machine.domain.com
hostname -f: machine.domain.com
hostname -d: domain.com

Thank you very much