No hostname and ip in /etc/hosts after RHEL 6 install
Issue
- Anaconda on RHEL6 does not populate the public ip of the server and the hostname on
/etc/hosts
. This is documented here:
The /etc/hosts file is not populated with the hostname and IP in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- However, I don't understand if I'm ok to just add the entry manually there, like:
192.168.0.1 myhost myhost.mydomain.com
- We don't use NetworkManager, just an old fashioned static ip config.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
- Static ip address
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