Re: [Condor-devel] Bug in hostname determination on lo-only systems

[Todd Tannenbaum <tannenba@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/23/2012 3:07 AM, Michael Hanke wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Condor (as of 7.7.4) is unable to determine the hostname (on Linux)
> whenever no other network interface than loopback is available. This
> leads to FULL_HOSTNAME being undefined and consequently all kinds of
> trouble.
>
> I have seen this behavior happening independently from the specific
> settings of BIND_ALL_INTERFACES and NETWORK_INTERFACE. Running
> `hostname` in a console yields the hostname of course.
>
> Admittedly, this doesn't have much of an impact on any real Condor
> machine, but I see it every time I'm practicing policy writing on my
> laptop in the train.

In the no-network-but still-wanna-play w/ Condor scenarios, I usually do

  NETWORK_INTERFACE = 127.0.0.1

and replace FULL_HOSTNAME with $(IP_ADDRESS).

Hmmm... what do folks think about just replacing FULL_HOSTNAME with 
IP_ADDRESS in general in our default config files?


Todd


> Thanks,
>
> Michael


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