Re: changing 'hosts' to get my machine name ?
Thanks Thomas; On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 23:38 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote: > William Case wrote: > > Hi; > > > > This is an old stupid question but I am stuck nonetheless. I have > > googled for several different ways but none work. > > > > I have changed my /etc/hosts file to: > > 127.0.0.1 CASE localhost.localdomain localhost > > > > This is the same as from my F9 /etc backup. > > > > CASE is the name of my machine. None of my programs seems to recognize > > it except 'hostname' -s or -f. The same problem with > > localhost.localdomain. I have changed it manually before in earlier > > Fedora versions but now nothing seems to work. If I remember correctly > > there where two files that needed changing. > > > > I just installed F10 and must have missed Anaconda asking for my machine > > name. > > > > Your hostname is set in /etc/sysconfig/network. /etc/hosts is only for > name resolution, although you should prbably set your hostname there as > well. You should use lower case for the hostname, some apps don't grok > mixed or upper case. > I set the hostname with lower case in network. Everything works fine -- I guess I just had a brain cramp or something. However, I had heard that some programs don't understand upper case hostnames. In F9 I purposefully used CASE to see. I didn't hit one program that had a problem. I wonder if that means the world has changed by now and a user can get away with using upper case. -- Regards Bill Fedora 10, Gnome 2.24.2 Evo.2.24.2, Emacs 22.2.1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: changing 'hosts' to get my machine name ?
William Case wrote: Hi; This is an old stupid question but I am stuck nonetheless. I have googled for several different ways but none work. I have changed my /etc/hosts file to: 127.0.0.1 CASE localhost.localdomain localhost This is the same as from my F9 /etc backup. CASE is the name of my machine. None of my programs seems to recognize it except 'hostname' -s or -f. The same problem with localhost.localdomain. I have changed it manually before in earlier Fedora versions but now nothing seems to work. If I remember correctly there where two files that needed changing. I just installed F10 and must have missed Anaconda asking for my machine name. Your hostname is set in /etc/sysconfig/network. /etc/hosts is only for name resolution, although you should prbably set your hostname there as well. You should use lower case for the hostname, some apps don't grok mixed or upper case. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
changing 'hosts' to get my machine name ?
Hi; This is an old stupid question but I am stuck nonetheless. I have googled for several different ways but none work. I have changed my /etc/hosts file to: 127.0.0.1 CASE localhost.localdomain localhost This is the same as from my F9 /etc backup. CASE is the name of my machine. None of my programs seems to recognize it except 'hostname' -s or -f. The same problem with localhost.localdomain. I have changed it manually before in earlier Fedora versions but now nothing seems to work. If I remember correctly there where two files that needed changing. I just installed F10 and must have missed Anaconda asking for my machine name. -- Regards Bill Fedora 10, Gnome 2.24.2 Evo.2.24.2, Emacs 22.2.1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
