Praedor Tempus wrote: > 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! > There exists no /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1, nor /etc/boot, nor /etc/hostname on my > system so either Mandrake has substantially deviated from the norm or the > manpage is hopelessly bogus and to be eradicated from the face of the earth. > > To quote the manpage: > The host name is usually set once at system startup in > /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 or /etc/init.d/boot (normally by read > ing the contents of a file which contains the host name, > e.g. /etc/hostname). > > What a crock. So, how does the hostname REALLY get set? Not by any of the
Praedor, It's really quite simple. Open Linuxconf->Networking->Host name and IP Network devices. The first panel you see is where you set the hostname for the machine. On the Adapter1 tab is where you set the IP address, whether or not you want to IP address to set manually, Dhcp, or Bootp. On this tab you can also set some other values. But the point here is _this_ is where you set the hostname for the machine. Mark
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