printk and kernel log

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 18:46:50 +0300, Kevin Wilson said:
> Thanks, but unfortuantely this is not so.
> On this machine I have:
>  /bin/hostname
> amd1

Weird.  Maybe you have a flaky syslog() call that writes UDP packets to the
local host, rather than using the unix-domain socket at /dev/log - when the
packet arrives, the syslogd gets the source address of the packet (which will
be 127.0.0.1), and looks it up (usually in /etc/hosts), where it's getting the
name "localhost".

If you want to fix that, change the entry in /etc/hosts (on my laptop,
it looks like this:

127.0.0.1   turing-police.cc.vt.edu localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4
::1         turing-police.cc.vt.edu localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6



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