Hi everyone

I'm new here and have only just started to work with mysql.

I've been struggling to install it on a SusE Linux 9.0 machine for a couple of days now. What I have been doing is installing it from the SuSe CD's using YasT. But when I then try to run mysql_install_db I get the following error:

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Neither host 'RSCH-01' and 'localhost' could not be looked up with
/usr/bin/resolveip
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
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Does anyone know I might try to resolve this problem? It would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Ffenics

as root set the hostname:
# hostname whatever_hostname

then check for the entry in /etc/hosts for example:

127.0.0.1 localhost locahost.localdomain localhost
your IP whatever_hostname whatever_hostname.domainname aliased_hostname

Also little advice: Don't use YaST...

Hi ika

Thanks a lot. That worked a treat

Ffenics

Why is using YasT not such a good idea, by the way?

Because:
- There is not YaST in another Linux distros just in SuSE.
- Binary which was compiled on the same machine is optimized.
- YaST is comfort but also is (sometimes) dummy.