[Users] Debian CT issue - hostname added to /etc/hosts on every start

[Steve Scaffidi]

Well, thanks for the advice. I have to say, I've never had to deal
with an "incorrect" hosts file and NIS/NFS, so I'm not entirely
certain if this is a Debian issue or an OpenVZ issue. It's just one of
those things that I've taken for granted for always being correct!


On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Scott Dowdle <dowdle at montanalinux.org> wrote:
> Steve,
>
> ----- "Steve Scaffidi" <stephen at scaffidi.net> wrote:
>> Very strange issue, I'm not sure where I went wrong or how to fix it:
>>
>> CT /etc/hosts:
>> --------------------
>> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
>> # Auto-generated hostname. Please do not remove this comment.
>> 10.1.10.123 test-server.redweek.com  test-server test-server
>> --------------------
>>
>> OpenVZ seems to really want to have the hostname listed twice in the
>> hosts file... every time I issue a vzctl restart that line is reset
>> to
>> what I pasted above.
>>
>> Unfortunately this error causes NIS and NFS to fail (due to portmapper
>> failing) and I can get them working by fixing the invalid line above
>> and restarting those services in the right order. However, I really
>> need to figure out why openvz seems to be doing this and how to fix
>> it!
>
> Look at the script being run from /etc/vz/dists/debian.conf you'll see reference to scripts in the /etc/vz/dists/scripts/ directory.
>
> On a Fedora 12 container, I also had the hostname listed twice but it doesn't break anything and yp works fine.  I also see this behavior in some other containers as well as physical hosts without OpenVZ.
>
> I'm not discouraging you from fixing it, but your services shouldn't be so picky.
>
> TYL,
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-- Steve Scaffidi <stephen at scaffidi.net>