Praedor Tempus wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 04:18:14PM -0500 : > OK, I want to change the name of my laptop from the default > localhost.localdomain to lapdog.ravenhome.net. Looking at the manpage for > hostname, it mentions: /etc/init.d/boot, /etc/hostname, and > /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 as where/how hostname is set. Uh-uh! Does not does not!
vi /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME="lapdog.ravenhome.net" DOMAINNAME="ravenhome.net" Note that you either need to have: 1) a DNS server that returns authoritative info for the ravenhome.net domain, especially the host lapdog. If you are using 192.168.* or 10.* or 172.16/20 IP addresses, then you need to have a nameserver that provides different answers based on where the name query originates from. -OR- 2) Configure it in /etc/hosts of all machines that need to access it directly. Blue skies... Todd -- Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn Cooker Version mandrake-release-8.3-0.2mdk Kernel 2.4.18-20mdk
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