OK, I have always been stuck with either localhost or whatever name my dhcp server gives me (today I am d152-159). I would LIKE to give myself an alias of my choice but every time I've made any moves in that direction, it borks my system. KDE chokes and cannot connect to itself anymore, no new konsoles, inability to contact my mail provider, and other sorts of networking-related pain. All I did was set my alias using linuxconf! An ALIAS dorks networking and the system?! Doing a "man hostname" doesn't give me anything useful. I try "hostname -a <my desired alias>" and it returns nothing but a blank line. I edit /etc/hosts and try to add/change the alias there. No good (and its gone next startup). What is the magic trick to naming my system whatever I want to?
praedor
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