On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 14:25, Praedor Tempus wrote: > 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?
The startup script checks for a 'localhost' entry in /etc/hosts, so you
need to leave that there and simply add your preferred hostname on a
second line. Try something like this:
[dave@dedannshae dave]$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.0.1 dedannshae.thuria.org dedannshae
[dave@dedannshae dave]$
Works great on my system, using dhcp at home and work (it's a laptop).
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