On Wednesday 20 March 2002 01:25 pm, you 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? > > praedor
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