On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 14:36:00 -0700 Todd Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said with temporary authority
> 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 Praedor... also to make the change work without a reboot type hostname=lapdog.ravenhome.net ... then to verify just type hostname. This will make it work for this session. What Todd suggests will make it permanent and work over a reboot.> -- > 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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