On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Mike Rambo wrote: > 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> >
Mike, apart from sheery confusion your point in that post was...what? -- daRmaTTeR R L U: #186492 When ever people annoy me I remember, "Vengence is mine saith the Lord." My prayer is, "...here am I Lord...send me!"
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