From: Florian Forster <octo@huhu.verplant.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:00:22 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: src/collectd.c: Write a more informative error message if looking up the FQDN fails.
X-Git-Tag: collectd-4.3.0~2
X-Git-Url: https://git.verplant.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=93a27c977f84b90344f3f6ec6c0263fac6799fb1;p=collectd.git

src/collectd.c: Write a more informative error message if looking up the FQDN fails.

As requested by Micha Krause.
---

diff --git a/src/collectd.c b/src/collectd.c
index 2d161aad..f260c842 100644
--- a/src/collectd.c
+++ b/src/collectd.c
@@ -87,7 +87,11 @@ static int init_hostname (void)
 	status = getaddrinfo (hostname_g, NULL, &ai_hints, &ai_list);
 	if (status != 0)
 	{
-		ERROR ("getaddrinfo failed.");
+		ERROR ("Looking up \"%s\" failed. You have set the "
+				"\"FQDNLookup\" option, but I cannot resolve "
+				"my hostname to a fully qualified domain "
+				"name. Please fix you network "
+				"configuration.");
 		return (-1);
 	}