Praedor Tempus wrote: > > 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? >
<Start quote of previous message on this topic> >> >> Praedor Tempus wrote: >> > >> > On Wednesday 19 June 2002 12:03 pm, daRcmaTTeR wrote: >> > > Praedor Tempus wrote: >> > > > I am hesitant to try this again...I run postfix on my system as my mta. >> > > > I own the ravenhome.net domain. I want my postfix to identify outgoing > ><snip> > >> > I do own ravenhome.net and have an account with dydns. Works well. What >> > concerns me is naming my system ravenhome.net and having no problems when I >> > am not connected. In the past, I have edited my hosts file to change >> > localhost entries to ravenhome entries and it borked my system. It has been >> >> Did you really _change_ the localhost entries? If so, that >> is a no-no. You _must_ have the localhost entries intact. >> You just _add_ entries for the additional IP/name >> combinations you need. >> >> [mrambo@mrambo mrambo]$ more /etc/hosts >> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost >> 192.168.1.12 mrambo.imcdom.local mrambo >> [mrambo@mrambo mrambo]$ >> >> > a while so I don't recall the details but is this not really all I should >> > HAVE to do to change my hostname? Simply replace the localhost.localdomain >> > entry with ravenhome.net? > >This occured to me after I sent the previous mail >unfortunately... > > *****The answer to your question is below***** >Where are you changing the hostname (what file)? The >hostname is set in /etc/sysconfig/network. /etc/hosts >relates hostnames to IP addresses but doesn't really set >anything. *****The answer to your question is above***** > >Sorry if I've misunderstood or just stated the obvious but >if you get some of this wrong it really will mess things up. >In particular, localhost is required for many system >processes. Without that /etc/hosts entry things will >definitely go wrong... > ><more snippage> > <End quote>
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