On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 10:38:49AM -0700, Greg Baker wrote: > Have a look at the ISP-HOWTO. I seem to remember that putting a fake > fully qualified domain name (ie. linuxbox.mydomain.local) in /etc/hostname > fixed that problem, though. > Thank you, it works now. I also put in /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost mybox mybox.home.net not sure if it was necessary
it's funny enough that you should not put extra newlines in /etc/hostname it fools 'hostname --file /etc/hostname' and it doesn't set any hostname at all Konstantin
