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? > >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. >> >[...] > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Praedor
use the hostname command in a terminal su'ed to root hostname lapdog.ravenhome.net reboot If you look at rc.sysinit you will see that /bin/hostname is how the hostname is retrieved and how it is set. Now quit reading BSD specific/Slackware specific man pages, take your head out of the sand, and do it. Civileme
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