Problem with determining host name in SimFactory 1

On the new Scientific Linux 6 installation at the AEI, SimFactory 1 thinks that the local machine is called localhost.localdomain:

$ simfactory/sim build --thornlist WaveToy.th --optionlist damiana_sl6.cfg Simulation Factory: Configuration name(s) not specified -- using default configuration "sim" Uncaught exception from user code: Unknown machine name "localhost.localdomain" at simfactory/sim line 5061. at simfactory/sim line 5061 main::get_machine('') called at simfactory/sim line 1498 main::command_build() called at simfactory/sim line 454

Looking at the code for get_hostnamealias, it appears to look for all the host name aliases of the current machine and select the first one in the returned list which contains a dot. On the workstation in question, I get:

[ianhin@sl-18 ~]$ hostname -a localhost.localdomain localhost localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 sl-18 sl-18.damiana.admin

which explains the behaviour. My first reaction would be to filter the list to remove all the "local" aliases. This might break peoples' existing setup. I have seen mailing list posts which indicate that people use localhost as their machine name in simfactory. Since SimFactory 1 is approaching end-of-life, it might just be better to say that you need to use the --hostname option directly if you run into this problem, rather than breaking peoples' existing workflow. Thoughts?

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