On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 11:09, Todd Lyons wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > David McGlone wrote on Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:04:28PM -0500 : > > > > > I never had a problem setting my hostname with Red Hat, but since I switched > > to Mandrake, some things are just so different. > > With Red Hat, the hostname was set in /etc/hostname > > on mandrake as I've learned is in /etc/sysconfig/network. > > RedHat also uses /etc/sysconfig/network: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -q redhat-release > redhat-release-7.3-1 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# grep HOST /etc/sysconfig/network > HOSTNAME="www.mrball.net" > > And before anybody bitches, this is a virtual machine that I purchase > for my colocation services. I didn't have a choice on the OS. I > offered to assist with making Mandrake available as well, but was told > no thank you. > > Blue skies... todd
Todd, Won't get any complaints here. Frankly because if you kept your head down into MDK constantly you'd loose a lot of your effectiveness for Linux and Mandrake do to a very myopic view of the world. James PS wanna see something really dirty.... there is also /etc/sysconfig/networking/default/network ... yep RH hides multiple copies to protect you from yourself... it's a config nightmare at times.
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