MySQL install

[Mike Starke]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:05:06PM -0700, 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?
/_

Could this be something as simple as placing a line in /etc/hosts?

supermicro	x.x.x.x

-Mike