On Sunday 06 July 2003 19:46, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > > Hoi Jorge, > > > > i have also a cable modem and a dynamic address, this are the files you > > have to change > > > > /etc/hostname > > /etc/hosts > > > > Just choose a name you like :-) > > > > Patrick > > Thanks, Patrick. I've set /etc/hostname, and still the command hostname > returns "localhost". The point is that the computer has some official > name, to which one can send e-mail. I don't know in what other > circunstances that name might be important. There must be some command to > find that name at boot time or whatever, perhaps by querying the DNS > server, I suppose that's what RedHat does... >
check out www.dyndns.org, get a real hostname and use that. -- Tom Wesley Please encrypt personal replies if possible.
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