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Created January 7, 2014 15:45
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Adds hostname to /etc/hosts (place in /etc/rc.local).
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add-hostname-to-etc-hosts.sh
#!/bin/bash
HOSTNAME=`hostname`
ETC_HOSTS=/etc/hosts
if ! grep $HOSTNAME $ETC_HOSTS > /dev/null ; then
if grep "127.0.0.1" $ETC_HOSTS > /dev/null ; then
sed -i "s/127\.0\.0\.1.*$/& $HOSTNAME/" $ETC_HOSTS
else
echo "127.0.0.1 localhost $HOSTNAME" >> $ETC_HOSTS
fi
fi
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