I am also a little leery of using linuxconf for this. It (linuxconf) appeared to bork my attempts at wlan ad-hoc networking and I was told not to use it in a wlan mailing list. In the past I have tried changing the hostname via linuxconf with mucked up results. I will give it a shot again but still, what file/system config contains THE hostname information utilized by "hostname"? If is isn't /etc/hostname, /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1, or /etc/init.d/boot as mentioned in the hostname manpage, then what is it?
Regardless of whether or not I use linuxconf, I would like to know this so I can always manually fix likely screwups from automagic tools. praedor On Sunday 23 June 2002 08:43 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Todd Lyons wrote: > | daRcmaTTeR wrote on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 09:16:58PM -0400 : > |>It's really quite simple. Open Linuxconf->Networking->Host name and IP > | > | I usually recommend not to use linuxconf except as a last resort. It > | does some things to the system in a not friendly way and has left a bad > | taste in my mouth. Maybe it's better now, but I'm not going to trust it > | myself. Use webmin or mcc instead. > | > | Blue skies... Todd > > well...depending upon your system setup, mine included, you have to be > careful at the end of things when you're shutting it down. Linuxconf > often wants to "update" the system status. Most of the time, because of > the way I've got my FTP server setup I don't allow it to do anything. > However, thats just on the server. the workstations are a different story. [...]
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