Derek Jennings wrote:
On Friday 03 December 2004 08:43, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote:
Re: [newbie] Changing hostname
Actually the statement he needs is NEEDHOSTNAME=no
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You were quite right Derek. It was NEEDHOSTNAME wich was ment to be configured...
But then again, opening the /etc/hosts file I see this line:
127.0.0.1 localhost
Where am I going wrong?
Thanks, Vegard
Your mistake is in deleting that line. It is essential.
If you want to set your hostname you must do it by setting the line HOSTNAME= in /etc/sysconfig/network, or by GUI in MandrakeControlCentre>Network>InternetAccess restart networking with 'service network restart' or by using the GUI in MandrakeControlCentre>System>Services for the new hostname to take effect.
derek
Try
127.0.0.1 <Your preferred hostname here> localhost
eg. mine reads:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.0.1 Snapafun.localdomain localhost
127.0.0.1 www.snapafun.con Snapafun
127.0.0.1 www.snapafun.con localhostNow that's somewhat overkill and needs a clean up but it works.
My prompt looks like so:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] frank]$
for my home directory.
From here you can start playing with your network stuff.
eg.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
ONBOOT=yes
MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no
WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=""
DHCP_HOSTNAME=SnapafunFrank
NEEDHOSTNAME=yesEr... mine seems to say 'YES' to NEEDHOSTNAME but that might not be what you require.
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