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On Tuesday 11 February 2003 06:00 am, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Something I've been wanting to ask for a long time but keep forgetting
> (until now):
>
> Whenever I do an upgrade/reinstall of Mandrake, my /etc/hosts is reset to
> just the line for localhost.localdomain . Because I've named my machine
> something other than localhost this leads to all kinds of problems with
> proftpd and GNOME. The solution is fairly simple, just add a line to the
> hosts file with my machine name in it and it works.
>
> But for unexperienced users this could be a big hurdle. Is this behaviour
> of the installer a bug or a feature?
>
> Eager for your comments,
I used to do that, then when I got a laptop and went from having my ethernet
dev up to having my wireless dev up and eth down there would be problems
because they were different IP#'s, so here's what I've done for this purpose.
[junfan@kato junfan]$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 kato.jeetkunedomaster.net kato localhost.localdomain
localhost
put the fqdn hostname and hostname on the same line with localhost stuff so it
always uses loopback.
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Jason Straight
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