Question

How i configure my /etc/host on Ubuntu?

Posted October 5, 2014 28k

Hi, i created hostname: ‘mysite.com’, but, how i configure the etc/host?

My actual hosts is this

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 mysite.com mysite
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx mysite.com mysite

Is correct?

But when i execute

sudo service hostname restart

This error appears:

stop: Unknow instance 
hostname stop/waiting

The command hostname return mysite.com and the hostname -f return mysite.com

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ElTommy

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kamaln7 October 5, 2014

That’s fine, the hostname service runs hostname -b -F /etc/hostname (see /etc/init/hostname.conf) which exits after setting the hostname, so it doesn’t continue running.

Your /etc/hosts file looks proper, are you experiencing any issues with your hostname config?

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ElTommy October 5, 2014

@kamaln7 i need change the /etc/init/hostname.conf and modify the value description?

The only problem I have is the message ‘stop: Unknown instance
hostname stop / waiting ’
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kamaln7 October 5, 2014
No, you do not need to change anything. Everything should work fine as is. hostname is not a service, it’s a program that runs once, sets the hostname, and exists.

stop: Unkown instance

basically means that the hostname program is not running, which is OK.
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ElTommy October 5, 2014

Ok, thanks very much kamaln7. You save my day.
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mfzhsn August 27, 2015

I am having similar issue where I am unable to stop a service ( i am trying to stop freeradius )

stop: Unknown instance:

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ElTommy August 27, 2015

Now i stop/reload the Apache.

sudo service apache2 reload

sudo service apache2 stop
sudo service apache2 start

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