mysql_install_db Problem

[Adam Smith]

Doing the post-install on mysql :

/usr/local/bin/mysql_install_db ===>

Neither host 'econ' and 'localhost' could not be looked up with
/usr/local/bin/resolveip
Please configure the 'hostname' command to return a correct
hostname.
If you want to solve this at a later stage, restart this script
with
the --force option

at the shell prompt ===>

resolveip econ.com

IP address of econ.com is 127.0.0.1

But

cat /etc/hosts

# $FreeBSD: src/etc/hosts,v 1.11.2.4 2003/02/06 20:36:58 dbaker
Exp $
#
# Host Database
#
127.0.0.1 localhost
169.39.75.81 econ.com

How should I correct this?

The script does a

hostname=`/bin/hostname -s`

which returns econ, hostname stripped of the extension and creates it as
the env variable
but then does a hostname validity check with

resolved=`$bindir/resolveip $hostname 2>&1`

So it is doing

resolved=`/path/to/resolveip econ 2>&1` rather than
resolved=`/path/to/resolveip econ.com 2>&1`

Hence the error message

Thanks