[Xymon] hostname change on Xymon server

[hobbit at weiser.dk]

mail ~ $ hostname -f
mail.<domain>

mail ~ $ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1       localhost
194.255.97.27   mail.<domain>  mail

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

Regards,
Kim Johansen

> Only a couple of things come to mind.  How did you change your hostname?
> What does 'hostname -f' return?  What is in /etc/hosts?
>
> =G=
>
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 9:04 AM <hobbit at weiser.dk> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have changed the name on my server hosting Xymon server, a Ubuntu
>> 16.04.
>> But Xymon server do seem to still use the old hostname:
>>
>> The old name was "mail1":
>> - I get ghost report: "127.0.0.1 mail1 mail 0:38", I have shutdown Xymon
>> client, to isolate that it is coming from the Xymon server.
>> - the link in alert mails is "http://mail1/xymon-cgi...."
>> - A "ps" is showing: "sh -c vmstat 300 2
>> 1>/home/xymon/client/tmp/xymon_vmstat.mail1.7997 2>&1; mv
>> /home/xymon/client/tmp/xymon_vmstat.mail1.7997
>> /home/xymon/client/tmp/xymon_vmstat.mail1"
>>
>>
>> Here is what I have done:
>> - Used hostnamectl to change hostname, but have also being over
>> /etc/hostname and hosts.
>> - Changed the host in hosts.cfg in Xymon server.
>> - Used the 'xymon 127.0.0.1 "rename OLDHOSTNAME NEWHOSTNAME"'
>> - I have deleted the old make file and run make clean, and configured,
>> build, and installed all over again.
>> - I have search for mail1 string in Xymon folder, and found nothing.
>>
>> My gold is to have the right URL in the alert mails. But it is also
>> annoying me what I have done wrong...
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kim Johansen
>>
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