Behavior of hostname command in RHEL6 and RHEL 7

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Issue

  • Why hostname command does not shows any syntax error while passing multiple values in RHEL6?
  • Connectivity is getting lost due to incorrect host-name.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7
  • hostname

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