On 04 April 2011 at 23:37 Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi Terry, > > > Maybe my memory is faulty, but my recollection of doing this on > > earlier Unix systems, (like Solaris), is that the hostname went into > > the file called hostname (or similar) and that did it (after a > > reboot). > > Debian/Ubuntu still have that. > > $ cat /etc/hostname > oracI think what confused me is that TinyCore seems to have two >independent ways of setting the hostname; the file hostname, just like Debian >and Solaris, etc and the bootcode hostname=Myname. It was really confusing, because with the hostname set in the hostname file, I was able to ping 'Myname' successfully, but DNS didn't work and the command hostname returned 'box'. Once I added the bootcode, everything worked. I think I've established that this bootcode method is (if not unique) special to TC; presumably so that a LiveDisc user can set the hostname of a CD based system. I don't have a problem with that, but they shouldn't be independent. I'd have expected the bootcode to write to the hostname file, to keep everything consistent. Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
