On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Joel W. Leibow wrote:

> I just went through the MySQL install for version 3.23.55.  Everything ran
> fine, however when I attempted to run ./scripts/mysql_install_db i get the
> following error.  "Sorry, the host 'supermicro' could not be looked up.
> Please configure the 'hostname' command to return a correct hostname.
> If you want to solve this at a later stage, restart this script with
> the --force option".  I'm relatively new to the linux environment so this is
> something that I am not familiar with.  I'm running red hat 7.3.  Prior to
> installing MySQL I set HOSTNAME in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit to supermicro then I
> ran the hostname command to set the name to supermicro.  Is there something
> else that needs to be done?  I know that I can just run the script with the
> force option, but I would rather not do that.  I would prefer to resolve the
> hostname issue.  Anyone have any advice?

do you have your hostname setup in /etc/hosts?  what does 'hostname' 
return?

Davidp

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