On Wednesday, Aug 22, 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Say you've got a machine that's been up for an extended period of time > and during that period of time, you change the hostname of that machine. > No worries, simple enough, but further along the line, when you make > some changes to apache and restart that service, it fails. (And there's > nothing in the logs explaining why, which is incredibly frustrating!) > > Thinking of what could've changed since the last time apache was > started, if you change your hostname back to what it was back in the day > and give the restart another go, it's all good. > > Actually, I just noticed the same thing on my workstation in relation to > X. With the old hostname, X won't start (startx in runlevel 3), but as > soon as I change it back to the old hostname, it's happy and X starts > up. Both apache and X try to find your hostname's ip address on startup. Chances are that you need to add the new hostname to /etc/hosts. -- Paul Cox <paul at coxcentral dot com> Kernel: 2.4.7-12.3mdk - Uptime: 1 day 14 hours 54 minutes.
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