is the hostname same for all clients? e.g. localhost?
if not, is there an way to retrive it?

thanks in advance

localhost is an alias for a hostname. It means *this* computer.

The hostname can be specified in a number of ways. On Linux, type hostname to retrieve the current name.

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ok, but or example, my hostname is 5000d but boinc in using localhost, using 5000d hasnt been able to connect

got linux, boinc 5.9.5, I'm asking cause of the command line boinc option

Okay, I'm having the same problem. On project sites, the name used for this Linux computer is 'localhost.localdomain' however typing in hostname in the shell provides a different and correct hostname. Is there some other place BOINC is expecting the name but didn't find? I'm a bit of a linux neophyte so I didn't bother until seeing this thread.

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Is there some other place BOINC is expecting the name but didn't find?

It looks like it's stuck in the client_state.xml file. The <domain_name> entry is localhost.localdomain

I'll test if changing it in my CS file will break things. ;-)
That was a quick test. I changed the domain name to my computer name as root, saved the file, updated on one project and the entry was changed again to localhost.localdomain in client_state.xml ... I'll go ask a developer what is up with that. ;)

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Everyone, see Trac ticket 361

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Okay, I guess that means it wasn't a bad configuration on my end. Thanks for posting the ticket.

EDIT: I looked this up and found this thread posted about the same issue over at SETI.

Additional info about localhost.localdomain behavior is in this email in the debian mailing list.

Lastly, the relevant code appears to be in client/hostinfo_network.C.

I'm not sure I understand though, the hostname command in the shell apparently goes through the same function but returns differently. I used it without any arguments.

Another concern - if the hostname gets changed, could it lead to a split host on the projects that cannot be merged?

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