On Sunday 02 March 2003 03:44 pm, Damon Lynch wrote: > On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 08:09, Todd Lyons wrote: > > 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" > > Todd, > > Do you think a desirable feature would be for the installer / GUI tools > to reject an "http://"; being placed in front of the hostname? I've seen > a newbie mess this up, and then have KDE refuse to start and Gnome > regularly complain. She had to be coached to use vi in order to be able > to fix it :-) > Definitely not, because the http refers to the communication protocol something uses to talk to the host and is not part of the hostname. You could have ftp://www.mrball.net, rsync://www.mrball.net, smb://www.mrball.net, etc. -- Greg
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