[collectd] Hostnames in hexadecimal (!?)

[Jos?e Manuel Macias Luna]

Shibashish wrote:
> set your system hostname at /etc/sysconfig/network
> 
> NETWORKING=yes
> NETWORKING_IPV6=no
> HOSTNAME=xxx.yyy.com 
> 
> or set it on the commandline as
> 
> hostname xxx.yyy.com <http://xxx.yyy.com>

doing both things without result... (stopped and restarted collectd in between).
The FQDN is also in /etc/hosts.

any other possible solution?

regards,

jose manuel.