[Xymon] Where is the linux client name set?

[Galen Johnson]

Hey Ralph,

I'm fairly certain (not 100%) that 'gethostbyname' (apparently being
deprecated in favor of getnameinfo) will only return the first entry from
the hosts file.  I've been bitten by this for some other apps.

=G=

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 8:38 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've had clients check in with the short-form name when it's listed first
> in the /etc/hosts file, like this:
>
>      10.10.10.10    client  client.domain.com
>
> Just swapping the names over fixed it and made it check in with the
> long-form name:
>
>      10.10.10.10  client.domain.com  client
>
> Not sure why.
>
> Ralph Mitchell
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 7:44 PM, Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Either uname on the client or hosts config on the server.
>>
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>> On Sep 15, 2017 7:35 PM, "John Thurston" <john.thurston at alaska.gov>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> It's been a couple of years since I've needed to configure a linux
>>> client (my Solaris systems are still running their old BB clients). And I'm
>>> confused with what I'm seeing. This is on a _very_ minimal server
>>> installation with client; compiled from source.
>>>
>>> I have files in ~/client/tmp/ of the form msg.xymonx.state.ak.us.txt (so
>>> fully-qualified host.domain name). Yet the first line of that file is:
>>>   client xymonx.linux linux
>>>
>>> So the message body being sent to the xymon server contains the short
>>> host name. But the client is writing the file onto the disk with the
>>> fully-qualified name.
>>>
>>> The xymon server reports my client messages as 'ghosts', and correctly
>>> picks them up if I put a client alias in hosts.cfg
>>>   client:xymonx
>>> I'd like to do away with that alias.
>>>
>>> Where is my linux client picking up this short name?
>>>
>>> --
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