[newbie] hostname change
How do I change the PC host name ? Carlton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] hostname change
riccardo wrote: On Monday 21 March 2005 09:41 pm, Carlton Matthew wrote: How do I change the PC host name ? ~ by editing the file:/etc/HOSTNAME best rgds Nope. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hostname/Lan/SMB Problems
Thanks Adolfo. I will give that a shot, once the LAN problem is solved. Looks like I'll have to do things the windows way and just wipe the drive and re-install everything. On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 20:51:22 -0400, Adolfo Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] had this to say: AB Regarding the printer problem, I lost days trying to connect to a XP AB shared printer from MDK 10, something I had had no problem with 9.1. The AB problem was that CUPS changed the way it handles URLs. The new way is: AB smb://WORGROUP/username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/SHARE AB or AB smb://WORGROUP/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/SHARE AB AB So I fired drakprinter, picked Enter printer url and life was good AB again. AB AB Adolfo --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message is sqeaky clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0450-1, 12/09/2004 Tested on: 12/13/2004 4:54:29 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2004 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Hostname/Lan/SMB Problems
I have finally gotten through almost 600 msgs since joining and have found some hints on solving the hostname (renaming) problem. However I have a more pressing/puzzling problem. first of all, the machine is a Celeron 466mhz, 128MB ram and a 40gb HD. (found it in the alley a couple of weeks ago, works like a charm g) Anyway, I finally got the Linux box I needed. :-) Anyway, I installed mdk 10.0. Somehow I managed to get it connected to the internet and did the upgrade thing and everything was honky dory. However, I couldn't get it to connect to my W2K server machine. The hostname for the mdk box defaulted to mdkgroup. I called myself changing it in the snb.conf file but that didn't work. So it was getting late and since I don't have too much time to play during the week, I put it off until the weekend. Well, here it is the weekend (ok, it's near the end of the weekend) and low and behold, I can no longer connect to the internet. I can no longer connect to the router, it (machine) says the lan is not connected and yadda, yadda, ya! sigh I think once I can get the lan connection problem corrected, then I can work on the hostname problem, then I can probably get the smb problem taken care of too! Had a hell of a time trying to install the printer on it last week as well. :-( But that's another topic for another time! ARGH!!! The printer is installed on the server machine as well and the linux box is the only computer on the network that is being the PIA right now! Many TIA! --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message is sqeaky clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0450-1, 12/09/2004 Tested on: 12/12/2004 4:29:33 PM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2004 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hostname/Lan/SMB Problems
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 16:29 -0800, Charles R. Buchanan wrote: I have finally gotten through almost 600 msgs since joining and have found some hints on solving the hostname (renaming) problem. However I have a more pressing/puzzling problem. first of all, the machine is a Celeron 466mhz, 128MB ram and a 40gb HD. (found it in the alley a couple of weeks ago, works like a charm g) Anyway, I finally got the Linux box I needed. :-) Anyway, I installed mdk 10.0. Somehow I managed to get it connected to the internet and did the upgrade thing and everything was honky dory. However, I couldn't get it to connect to my W2K server machine. The hostname for the mdk box defaulted to mdkgroup. I called myself changing it in the snb.conf file but that didn't work. So it was getting late and since I don't have too much time to play during the week, I put it off until the weekend. Well, here it is the weekend (ok, it's near the end of the weekend) and low and behold, I can no longer connect to the internet. I can no longer connect to the router, it (machine) says the lan is not connected and yadda, yadda, ya! sigh I think once I can get the lan connection problem corrected, then I can work on the hostname problem, then I can probably get the smb problem taken care of too! Had a hell of a time trying to install the printer on it last week as well. :-( But that's another topic for another time! ARGH!!! The printer is installed on the server machine as well and the linux box is the only computer on the network that is being the PIA right now! Many TIA! Regarding the printer problem, I lost days trying to connect to a XP shared printer from MDK 10, something I had had no problem with 9.1. The problem was that CUPS changed the way it handles URLs. The new way is: smb://WORGROUP/username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/SHARE or smb://WORGROUP/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/SHARE So I fired drakprinter, picked Enter printer url and life was good again. Adolfo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Hostname
Where are the hostname and domainname stored in Mandrake (9.2)? I tried to edit file /etc/hosts butnothing changed, even after rebooting . Thanks. -- Piero Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hostname
Op Sun, 27 Jun 2004 14:38:33 +0200 schreef Piero: Where are the hostname and domainname stored in Mandrake (9.2)? I tried to edit file /etc/hosts butnothing changed, even after rebooting . Thanks. Try /etc/sysconfig/network. Paul -- Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws. - Amschel Mayer Rothschild, banker http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.htm Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] hostname and firewall ruels
How to change the hostname from a strange string like x1-6-00-50-something_like_that to a readable name? Where is default firewall rule file related in mandrake 9.2? Thanks Xue-Feng __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hostname and firewall ruels
I found the location of the firewall related configurations files. They are all in /etc/shorewall/ in case someone want to know. I am still looking for the solution for my first question. --- Xue-Feng Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to change the hostname from a strange string like x1-6-00-50-something_like_that to a readable name? Where is default firewall rule file related in mandrake 9.2? Thanks Xue-Feng __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hostname and firewall ruels
On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 20:38, Xue-Feng Yang wrote: I found the location of the firewall related configurations files. They are all in /etc/shorewall/ in case someone want to know. I am still looking for the solution for my first question. --- Xue-Feng Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to change the hostname from a strange string like x1-6-00-50-something_like_that to a readable name? Where is default firewall rule file related in mandrake 9.2? just try (no guarantee) K--Configuration--INTERNET-- here you start the wizard if you have a static IP address you can set your host name to something like foobox.com it worked for me Thanks Xue-Feng __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hostname and firewall ruels
Thank you, Aron. I don't have static IP. However, I just found a solution for my problem. I have this problem since I don't have static IP. So I have to use DHCP. The DHCP will overwrite the hostname. The solution to this, in case someone needs this, is using Mandrake Control Center, the network wizard in expert mode. --- Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 20:38, Xue-Feng Yang wrote: I found the location of the firewall related configurations files. They are all in /etc/shorewall/ in case someone want to know. I am still looking for the solution for my first question. --- Xue-Feng Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to change the hostname from a strange string like x1-6-00-50-something_like_that to a readable name? Where is default firewall rule file related in mandrake 9.2? just try (no guarantee) K--Configuration--INTERNET-- here you start the wizard if you have a static IP address you can set your host name to something like foobox.com it worked for me Thanks Xue-Feng __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hostname in 9.2
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 17:33:41 -0500 Jerry Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran the network setup wizard in expert mode and unchecked set host name from DHCP address (or something worded like that don't remember exactly) and it doesn't do it anymore. try that. Perfect you are exactly right, this fixed the same problem for me on 9.1 Regards, Dan Gordon -- Sat Nov 1 02:55:44 EST 2003 02:55:44 up 5 min, 2 users, load average: 0.95, 0.46, 0.22 You two ought to be more careful--your love could drag on for years and years. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hostname in 9.2
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:28:47 + Poogle [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Perhaps I didn't make myself clear, instead of the login screen saying Welcome to localhost as normal and a terminal prompt showing [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ it shows as Welcome to public1-derb2-... and [EMAIL PROTECTED] which are coming from my ISP. All I want is for the normal localhost to be displayed at boot and in terminals. Well, I see in there you've got: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes NEEDHOSTNAME=no could it be that your ISP's DHCP server is setting your hostname?! I've never heard of that before, but they might be running some kind of WINS/Netbios proto that is changing your hostname. I don't know enough about that network-scripts setup to advise what to change, except maybe try putting yes for NEEDHOSTNAME, but I would seriously recommend putting something between your ISP and your wkstn, like a router firewall that would negotiate the connection for you. How are you connecting, is it a DSL/PPPoE connection? -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it. -- Stanley Kubrick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hostname in 9.2
On Friday 31 Oct 2003 H:45 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:28:47 + Poogle [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Perhaps I didn't make myself clear, instead of the login screen saying Welcome to localhost as normal and a terminal prompt showing [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ it shows as Welcome to public1-derb2-... and [EMAIL PROTECTED] which are coming from my ISP. All I want is for the normal localhost to be displayed at boot and in terminals. Well, I see in there you've got: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes NEEDHOSTNAME=no could it be that your ISP's DHCP server is setting your hostname?! I've never heard of that before, but they might be running some kind of WINS/Netbios proto that is changing your hostname. I don't know enough about that network-scripts setup to advise what to change, except maybe try putting yes for NEEDHOSTNAME, but I would seriously recommend putting something between your ISP and your wkstn, like a router firewall that would negotiate the connection for you. How are you connecting, is it a DSL/PPPoE connection? NIC - Cable company's set top box, it works O.K in 9.1 so I must have setup something differently in 9.2, damned if I can see it though. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hostname in 9.2
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:26:47 + Poogle [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: NIC - Cable company's set top box, it works O.K in 9.1 so I must have setup something differently in 9.2, damned if I can see it though. There seems to be a pattern I'm seeing here with 9.2... One person had some probs with their prompt similar to yours, but that was solved by editing the ~/.bashrc: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/ Then there's the problem with output from df being abnormally verbose, not just outputting partition/usage, but hostname/partition/useage. I wonder if something was changed in 9.2 to do with either the global /etc/bashrc config or network settings... Anyone have any thoughts on this? -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++ Facts are the enemy of truth. -- Don Quixote Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hostname in 9.2 (SOLVED)
On Friday 31 Oct 2003 H:36 pm, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:26:47 + Poogle [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: NIC - Cable company's set top box, it works O.K in 9.1 so I must have setup something differently in 9.2, damned if I can see it though. There seems to be a pattern I'm seeing here with 9.2... One person had some probs with their prompt similar to yours, but that was solved by editing the ~/.bashrc: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/ Then there's the problem with output from df being abnormally verbose, not just outputting partition/usage, but hostname/partition/useage. I wonder if something was changed in 9.2 to do with either the global /etc/bashrc config or network settings... Anyone have any thoughts on this? Using DrakConnect from MCC, I noticed an option in expert mode that said enable network hotplugging having no idea what it did, I checked it and with all dhcp name options set to localhost in drakconnect it works. Now lets see if it survives a few reboots. -- http://www.poogle.co.uk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hostname in 9.2
I was the intiator of the previous thread a few days ago. I discovered that 9.2 didn't install a .bashrc file into the /home/[user] directory on my box. Sounds like it didn't on yours either. Just copy it over from the /root directory and (as root) change the user's copy's ownership. From there you can edit it as described. If you leave it unedited, the bash prompt wil be [EMAIL PROTECTED] directory]$ Paul On Friday 31 October 2003 09:36 am, HaywireMac wrote: On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:26:47 + Poogle [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: NIC - Cable company's set top box, it works O.K in 9.1 so I must have setup something differently in 9.2, damned if I can see it though. There seems to be a pattern I'm seeing here with 9.2... One person had some probs with their prompt similar to yours, but that was solved by editing the ~/.bashrc: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/ Then there's the problem with output from df being abnormally verbose, not just outputting partition/usage, but hostname/partition/useage. I wonder if something was changed in 9.2 to do with either the global /etc/bashrc config or network settings... Anyone have any thoughts on this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hostname in 9.2
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:02:07 - I can't make my hostname stick at localhost, my IP is dynamic. I've edited various files (see below) and thought I'd solved it but then I rebooted and it changed back to public1-derb2-3- The edited files :- I ran the network setup wizard in expert mode and unchecked set host name from DHCP address (or something worded like that don't remember exactly) and it doesn't do it anymore. try that. Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Hostname in 9.2
I can't make my hostname stick at localhost, my IP is dynamic. I've edited various files (see below) and thought I'd solved it but then I rebooted and it changed back to public1-derb2-3- The edited files :- /etc/sysconfig/ network HOSTNAME=localhost NETWORKING=yes /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=yes MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes NEEDHOSTNAME=no and etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Hostname
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 03:21, Lanman wrote: Hey Guys! Sorry I wasn't paying attention,...Did you two say something significant? I was busy doing one of those canuck things! What- eating a jelly donut? -- Tue Aug 26 08:05:00 EST 2003 08:05:00 up 21:51, 1 user, load average: 2.14, 1.25, 0.89 - |____ | illawarra computer services| | /-oo /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously. -- Booth Tarkington Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Hostname
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 02:05, Frankie wrote: Well what can I say, we Aussies don't have a lot going for us.. and we read kinda slow, so maybe that helped me catch the discrepancy.. :-) rgds Franki I have to state that I don't think Aussies are slow - just observant - and they take their time doing it right the first time because they don't want to be bothered having to do it again... -- Tue Aug 26 07:50:00 EST 2003 07:50:00 up 21:36, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.53, 0.76 - |____ | illawarra computer services| | /-oo /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We really don't have any enemies. It's just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Hostname
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Tuesday, 26 August 2003 5:53 AM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: RE: [newbie] Hostname On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 02:05, Frankie wrote: Well what can I say, we Aussies don't have a lot going for us.. and we read kinda slow, so maybe that helped me catch the discrepancy.. :-) rgds Franki I have to state that I don't think Aussies are slow - just observant - and they take their time doing it right the first time because they don't want to be bothered having to do it again... -- FRANKI: I don't think we are slow either, I was just being modest. :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Hostname
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 21:02, Frankie wrote: I don't think we are slow either, I was just being modest. :-) This is the MANDRAKE list - no use in being modest here, mate. -- Tue Aug 26 23:15:01 EST 2003 23:15:01 up 1 day, 13:01, 1 user, load average: 0.92, 0.89, 0.88 - |____ | illawarra computer services| | /-oo /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * No antique is as rare, old, or valuable as it seems-unless your neighbor owns it. -- Murphy's First Law of Antiques Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hostname
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 16:47:26 -0400, Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about [newbie] Hostname: How do I change the hostname, with or without webmin. I believe it is in /etc/sysconfig/network. But you can also do it via MCC Network Internet DrakConnect. HTH Regards, =Dick Gevers= -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Encryption is an envelope - the contents are private. iD4DBQE/SX4FwC/zk+cxEdMRArVUAJjQxsoJJ92yJS5zaSE/prfgWHfoAJ414zCo xSZrDzQfy2PKe/DzdATi6w== =P5WV -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Hostname
open a terminal window, su - to become root.. then type: hostname my.new.hostname Then edit the file /etc/sysconfig/network edit the line: HOSTNAME .. to reflect the new hostname. Then edit /etc/hosts file to make sure that it resolves your new hostname properly. Done... easy huh? No doubt you could have done that with webmin or netconf or MCC, but why bother when its that easy? rgds Franki htmlfixit.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lee Wiggers Sent: Monday, 25 August 2003 4:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Hostname First, I did rtfm. I couldn't ftfa. How do I change the hostname, with or without webmin. It's the little things that get you. All 8 boxes on my lan are properly named except for my pride and joy. She is listed as . Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Hostname
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 16:17, Frankie wrote: open a terminal window, su - to become root.. then type: hostname my.new.hostname Then edit the file /etc/sysconfig/network edit the line: HOSTNAME .. to reflect the new hostname. Then edit /etc/hosts file to make sure that it resolves your new hostname properly. Done... easy huh? No doubt you could have done that with webmin or netconf or MCC, but why bother when its that easy? rgds Franki htmlfixit.com Just cut out a step there - edit the /etc/sysconfig/network, put in your new hostname, then type: service network restart Pppft! ;) -- Mon Aug 25 17:45:01 EST 2003 17:45:01 up 7:31, 1 user, load average: 0.83, 0.79, 0.74 - |____ | illawarra computer services| | /-oo /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.1+ RH 9 Mandrake Linux Kernel 2.4.21-11mdk Cooker for i586 - * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * I am not convinced that they can write solid stable software. Proprietary software is already hobbled by it's secretive cathedral nature, but Microsoft seems to have a corner on incompetent programming as well. -- Chris DiBona from the introduction. (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Hostname
On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 21:08, Frankie wrote: Stephen you putz.. you cut out a step and then added one.. how is that better?? :-) my way does not entail restarting the network interfaces. Alternatives are always good however.. :-) rgds Franki I can't believe you're the ONLY ONE who picked that up, mate. You must be sober tonight. (g) I was BAITING for someone...but obviously didn't work...ah well...sometimes ppl's perception ain't all there... (Can you believe that that slipped by all the yanks, poms and canucks?) -- Mon Aug 25 25:00:00 EST 2005 22:00:00 up 11:46, 1 user, load average: 1.30, 0.99, 0.82 - |____ | illawarra computer services| | /-oo /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | || | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - linux user #:267497 linux machine #:194239 * MDK 9.9+ RH 19 Mandrake Linux Kernel 3.6.51-61mdk Croaker for i986 - * This message was composed on a 110% Microsoft free computer * Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hostname
On 25 Aug 2003 17:48:48 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Pppft! ;) Shite, mate, open a window before you do that! -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: nodex.sytes.net ++ There are no accidents whatsoever in the universe. -- Baba Ram Dass Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Hostname
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Monday, 25 August 2003 8:07 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: RE: [newbie] Hostname On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 21:08, Frankie wrote: Stephen you putz.. you cut out a step and then added one.. how is that better?? :-) my way does not entail restarting the network interfaces. Alternatives are always good however.. :-) rgds Franki I can't believe you're the ONLY ONE who picked that up, mate. You must be sober tonight. (g) I was BAITING for someone...but obviously didn't work...ah well...sometimes ppl's perception ain't all there... (Can you believe that that slipped by all the yanks, poms and canucks?) FRANKI: Well what can I say, we Aussies don't have a lot going for us.. and we read kinda slow, so maybe that helped me catch the discrepancy.. :-) rgds Franki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Hostname
Hey Guys! Sorry I wasn't paying attention,...Did you two say something significant? I was busy doing one of those canuck things! LOL! Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 8/26/2003 at 12:05 AM Frankie wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn Sent: Monday, 25 August 2003 8:07 PM To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: RE: [newbie] Hostname On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 21:08, Frankie wrote: Stephen you putz.. you cut out a step and then added one.. how is that better?? :-) my way does not entail restarting the network interfaces. Alternatives are always good however.. :-) rgds Franki I can't believe you're the ONLY ONE who picked that up, mate. You must be sober tonight. (g) I was BAITING for someone...but obviously didn't work...ah well...sometimes ppl's perception ain't all there... (Can you believe that that slipped by all the yanks, poms and canucks?) FRANKI: Well what can I say, we Aussies don't have a lot going for us.. and we read kinda slow, so maybe that helped me catch the discrepancy.. :-) rgds Franki Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Hostname
First, I did rtfm. I couldn't ftfa. How do I change the hostname, with or without webmin. It's the little things that get you. All 8 boxes on my lan are properly named except for my pride and joy. She is listed as . Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] hostname
When running the server wizard from wizdrake I get stuck on hostname. The text sais if you will only have intranet any valid name is ok, like company.net. I tried using that name but it was not correct. Do I have to pick a host name from somewhere else on the system? Or does my internet connection make the wizard assume that I am trying to configure an internet server? What makes a hostname valid? Do I have to use a domain name as well? Thanks, Stojs Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hostname
According to the manual the host name has to be input in the format like this rtfm.mandrakesoft.com (I'm not being insulting it really does say that.) Derek On Sunday 09 December 2001 09:22, you wrote: When running the server wizard from wizdrake I get stuck on hostname. The text sais if you will only have intranet any valid name is ok, like company.net. I tried using that name but it was not correct. Do I have to pick a host name from somewhere else on the system? Or does my internet connection make the wizard assume that I am trying to configure an internet server? What makes a hostname valid? Do I have to use a domain name as well? Thanks, Stojs Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hostname
On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 03:22, Stojs wrote: When running the server wizard from wizdrake I get stuck on hostname. The text sais if you will only have intranet any valid name is ok, like company.net. I tried using that name but it was not correct. Do I have to pick a host name from somewhere else on the system? Or does my internet connection make the wizard assume that I am trying to configure an internet server? What makes a hostname valid? Do I have to use a domain name as well? Thanks, Stojs The hostname for a computer is a single word, like 'mycomputer' or 'frankenlinux'. The fully qualified domain name for a computer is a combination of the hostname and domain name (separated by a dot), like 'mycomputer.somedomain.org'. If you do not have a domain within your network (you're not running DNS for that network), then you can make up a domain like 'domain.com'. You must also have a hostname, and that hostname should be unique on the network. Thus, you can't (or shouldn't) have two computers called 'twins'. You could call them 'twin1' and 'twin2'. You get the idea. If I remember correctly, the wizard wants the fully qualified domain name. I could be wrong, but you should be able to figure out which one the wizard wants, and give it the correct answer. Dave -- Just a few of the perfect excuses for having some strawberry shortcake. Pick one. (1)It's less calories than two pieces of strawberry shortcake. (2)It's cheaper than going to France. (3)It neutralizes the brownies I had yesterday. (4)Life is short. (5)It's somebody's birthday. I don't want them to celebrate alone. (6)It matches my eyes. (7)Whoever said, Let them eat cake. must have been talking to me. (8)To punish myself for eating dessert yesterday. (9)Compensation for all the time I spend in the shower not eating. (10)Strawberry shortcake is evil. I must help rid the world of it. (11)I'm getting weak from eating all that healthy stuff. (12)It's the second anniversary of the night I ate plain broccoli. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hostname
edit that... change it to whatever you want... leave that IP though... its your loopback... but you prolly knew that:) instead of all the locahoast stuff.. edit it to be what you want:) - Original Message - From: NDPTAL85 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 7:51 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] hostname There's nothing in hosts that says anything about a hostname. This is the only thing in my hosts file: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost On Monday, November 19, 2001, at 02:48 PM, Mark D'voo wrote: /etc/hosts (must be root) On Tuesday 20 November 2001 07:44 am, you wrote: Which file in /etc do I have to edit to change my hostname on Mandrake 8.1? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hostname
i know you can do it by command line... my b/f did it the other day... i can get back to you on it in abou tan hour. 2.54am mountain time here. - Original Message - From: NDPTAL85 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 8:06 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] hostname Nope I'm just trying to edit it manually. In FreeBSD there is rc.conf and on OS X there's hostname but on Mandrake I can't seem to find the right file. On Monday, November 19, 2001, at 08:55 PM, Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: hi, i dont know specifically but you can change it using linuxconf. are you trying to change your hostname through a script/application? ciao! NDPTAL85 wrote: Which file in /etc do I have to edit to change my hostname on Mandrake 8.1? Thanks. -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Avenue cor. Poveda St. Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] hostname
well, one of the files you will have to change is /etc/sysconfig/network the hostname is defined there.. and define it in hosts and assign its IP there... Think that would do it... There may be more then that, thats just off the top of my head... rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of skidley Sent: Tuesday, 20 November 2001 11:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] hostname On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, NDPTAL85 wrote: There's nothing in hosts that says anything about a hostname. This is the only thing in my hosts file: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost Sure there is it says your hostname is localhost.localdomain. But I don't believe that is where you set your hostname as I recall. I remember changing my hostname and having to change the hostname in /etc/hosts so that X would work correctly. Just use the command hostname as root -- Linux User #195191 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] hostname
Which file in /etc do I have to edit to change my hostname on Mandrake 8.1? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hostname
/etc/hosts (must be root) On Tuesday 20 November 2001 07:44 am, you wrote: Which file in /etc do I have to edit to change my hostname on Mandrake 8.1? Thanks. -- 1:48am up 3:13, 3 users, load average: 0.26, 0.49, 0.88 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hostname
hi, i dont know specifically but you can change it using linuxconf. are you trying to change your hostname through a script/application? ciao! NDPTAL85 wrote: Which file in /etc do I have to edit to change my hostname on Mandrake 8.1? Thanks. -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Avenue cor. Poveda St. Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hostname
There's nothing in hosts that says anything about a hostname. This is the only thing in my hosts file: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost On Monday, November 19, 2001, at 02:48 PM, Mark D'voo wrote: /etc/hosts (must be root) On Tuesday 20 November 2001 07:44 am, you wrote: Which file in /etc do I have to edit to change my hostname on Mandrake 8.1? Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hostname
Nope I'm just trying to edit it manually. In FreeBSD there is rc.conf and on OS X there's hostname but on Mandrake I can't seem to find the right file. On Monday, November 19, 2001, at 08:55 PM, Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: hi, i dont know specifically but you can change it using linuxconf. are you trying to change your hostname through a script/application? ciao! NDPTAL85 wrote: Which file in /etc do I have to edit to change my hostname on Mandrake 8.1? Thanks. -- Programming, an artform that fights back. = Anuerin G. Diaz Design Engineer Millennium Software, Incorporated 25/F Equitable-PCI Tower ADB Avenue cor. Poveda St. Ortigas Center, Pasig City Tel# 638-3070 loc. 72 Fax# 638-3079 = Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hostname
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, NDPTAL85 wrote: Which file in /etc do I have to edit to change my hostname on Mandrake 8.1? Thanks. You can change it using the command hostname whatever and it will change it for you. -- Linux User #195191 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hostname
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, NDPTAL85 wrote: There's nothing in hosts that says anything about a hostname. This is the only thing in my hosts file: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost Sure there is it says your hostname is localhost.localdomain. But I don't believe that is where you set your hostname as I recall. I remember changing my hostname and having to change the hostname in /etc/hosts so that X would work correctly. Just use the command hostname as root -- Linux User #195191 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hostname: bash-2.05
u'r right jay. what might be helpful is if someone could mail me a fairly standard /etc/bashrc , bashprofile and /home/.bashrc, to see what it looks like and does. On Sunday 09 September 2001 11:55, you wrote: The later version of bash does not mess up your bashrc, but it won't restore your lost one either, if I understand you correctly. Jay On Friday 07 September 2001 11:17, I was honored with this communique: right, some more interesting facts i have just discovered: i have lost the pretty colors in my terminal. it doesn't appear to live in /etc, now i dont know if that's bad or not, but there is where it lives: bash-2.05$ locate bashrc /etc/skel/.bashrc /home/antoine/.bashrc bash-2.05$ cd / bash-2.05$ locate bash-2.05 /var/cache/grpmi/bash-2.05-6mdk.i586.rpm /usr/share/doc/bash-2.05 /usr/share/doc/bash-2.05/README /usr/share/doc/bash-2.05/CHANGES would trying to upgrade it with a later bash-2.05 from mandrake cooker possibly solve my probleme?(i suppose i could try, and i will unless somebody tells me it's a bad idea) On Thursday 06 September 2001 20:09, you wrote: Well, when I loaded bash-2.05, I didn't have any hostname issues as such, but it did rename /etc/bashrc to /etc/bashrc.rpmnew - which caused a bit of confusion as my custom prompt was located there. All I had to do was change the name of the file back and all was well. Hope this helps. Jay On Friday 07 September 2001 12:38, I was honored with this communique: On Thursday 06 September 2001 13:38, you wrote: Does the user that you were loged in have permissons on his assigned home directory? The same happened to my a couple of days before, and I see in LunxConf that the home directory of the user I was logging in was created by the root and the user ddidn't have permissons . . . Maybe it's just a coincidence the user does have permissions to his home directerory, and furthermore the same thing occurs when logged in as root. when changing directory, that bash-2.05$ doesn't change to bash -2.05/directory$ or anything, i am baffled -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of antoine rivoire Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 7:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] hostname: bash-2.05 hi i think i might have seen somebody emailing about that prob before, but i cant find it in the archive: in term windows, my hostname has been replaced by bash-2.05$ anybody? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hostname: bash-2.05
I can't find the original email sent on this topic, but it says that the hostname was replaced with the bash-2.05$. Are you simply referring to the prompt? Or is the hostname actually saying it's bash-2.05$? As for the request for a standard /etc/skel/.bashrc and /etc/skel/.bash_profile, here's what I have. I have edited mine a bit since I do have a few users that log on remotely to this machine. == [root@r2d2 skel]# less .bashrc # .bashrc # Source global definitions if [ -r /etc/bashrc ]; then . /etc/bashrc fi [root@r2d2 skel]# less .bash_profile # .bash_profile # Get the aliases and functions if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then . ~/.bashrc fi PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin USERNAME=`id -nu` USERID=`id -nu` export PATH USERNAME USERID BASH_ENV=$HOME/.bashrc == On some of my machines I actually have a simple /etc/skel/.aliases and I add a line in /etc/skel/.bash_profile that reads: souce $HOME/.aliases I'm pretty sure I just misunderstood what you were talking about with the bash-2.05$ for a hostname, but if that's the case, edit /etc/sysconfig/network to have all your correct information. Hope that comes in handy. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Use Vi! Uptime: 9:59am up 1:45, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 | | | | On Thursday 06 September 2001 13:38, you wrote: | Does the user that you were loged in have permissons on his assigned home | directory? | The same happened to my a couple of days before, and I see in LunxConf that | the home directory of the user I was logging in was created by the root and | the user ddidn't have permissons . . . | | Maybe it's just a coincidence | the user does have permissions to his home directerory, and furthermore the | same thing occurs when logged in as root. when changing directory, that | bash-2.05$ | doesn't change to bash -2.05/directory$ or anything, i am baffled | | | | -Original Message- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of antoine rivoire | Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 7:31 PM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: [newbie] hostname: bash-2.05 | | | hi | i think i might have seen somebody emailing about that prob before, but i | cant find it in the archive: | in term windows, my hostname has been replaced by | bash-2.05$ | anybody? | | | Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer | Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit | Content-Description: | | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hostname: bash-2.05
The later version of bash does not mess up your bashrc, but it won't restore your lost one either, if I understand you correctly. Jay On Friday 07 September 2001 11:17, I was honored with this communique: right, some more interesting facts i have just discovered: i have lost the pretty colors in my terminal. it doesn't appear to live in /etc, now i dont know if that's bad or not, but there is where it lives: bash-2.05$ locate bashrc /etc/skel/.bashrc /home/antoine/.bashrc bash-2.05$ cd / bash-2.05$ locate bash-2.05 /var/cache/grpmi/bash-2.05-6mdk.i586.rpm /usr/share/doc/bash-2.05 /usr/share/doc/bash-2.05/README /usr/share/doc/bash-2.05/CHANGES would trying to upgrade it with a later bash-2.05 from mandrake cooker possibly solve my probleme?(i suppose i could try, and i will unless somebody tells me it's a bad idea) On Thursday 06 September 2001 20:09, you wrote: Well, when I loaded bash-2.05, I didn't have any hostname issues as such, but it did rename /etc/bashrc to /etc/bashrc.rpmnew - which caused a bit of confusion as my custom prompt was located there. All I had to do was change the name of the file back and all was well. Hope this helps. Jay On Friday 07 September 2001 12:38, I was honored with this communique: On Thursday 06 September 2001 13:38, you wrote: Does the user that you were loged in have permissons on his assigned home directory? The same happened to my a couple of days before, and I see in LunxConf that the home directory of the user I was logging in was created by the root and the user ddidn't have permissons . . . Maybe it's just a coincidence the user does have permissions to his home directerory, and furthermore the same thing occurs when logged in as root. when changing directory, that bash-2.05$ doesn't change to bash -2.05/directory$ or anything, i am baffled -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of antoine rivoire Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 7:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] hostname: bash-2.05 hi i think i might have seen somebody emailing about that prob before, but i cant find it in the archive: in term windows, my hostname has been replaced by bash-2.05$ anybody? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- I have misplaced my pants. - Homer J. Simpson Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] hostname: bash-2.05
hi i think i might have seen somebody emailing about that prob before, but i cant find it in the archive: in term windows, my hostname has been replaced by bash-2.05$ anybody? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] hostname: bash-2.05
Does the user that you were loged in have permissons on his assigned home directory? The same happened to my a couple of days before, and I see in LunxConf that the home directory of the user I was logging in was created by the root and the user ddidn't have permissons . . . Maybe it's just a coincidence -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of antoine rivoire Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 7:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] hostname: bash-2.05 hi i think i might have seen somebody emailing about that prob before, but i cant find it in the archive: in term windows, my hostname has been replaced by bash-2.05$ anybody? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hostname: bash-2.05
On Thursday 06 September 2001 13:38, you wrote: Does the user that you were loged in have permissons on his assigned home directory? The same happened to my a couple of days before, and I see in LunxConf that the home directory of the user I was logging in was created by the root and the user ddidn't have permissons . . . Maybe it's just a coincidence the user does have permissions to his home directerory, and furthermore the same thing occurs when logged in as root. when changing directory, that bash-2.05$ doesn't change to bash -2.05/directory$ or anything, i am baffled -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of antoine rivoire Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 7:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] hostname: bash-2.05 hi i think i might have seen somebody emailing about that prob before, but i cant find it in the archive: in term windows, my hostname has been replaced by bash-2.05$ anybody? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hostname changed, some processes don't know yet
Sorry to intrude, but I am struggling with the same problem even though I am on a standalone PC. or if you want to add a different name not in DNS, 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.0.1 whateveryouwant.net whateveryouwant I fell in this conversation late: Do you mean you can have "both" 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost AND also 127.0.0.1 whateveryouwant.net whateveryouwant ? How is that possible and how do you do that? Where do you tell Mandrake 7.2 that your PC has 2 names? 127.0.0.1 whateveryouwant.net whateveryouwant Can it be just 127.0.0.1 whateveryouwant or do you need 2 names here? Also what do you mean by "loopback"? . Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Michael D. Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 11:21 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] hostname changed, some processes don't know yet Jay, Regardless of what other names you might have for your machine, you must still have localhost.localdomain. For example, we have a machine called wsdo, which has, in addition to the IP / hostname in DNS, the localhost / 127.0.0.1 loopback. Your host file should therefore look like: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx actualdns.whatever.com actualdns or if you want to add a different name not in DNS, 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.0.1 whateveryouwant.net whateveryouwant This must occur because many processes, including ping and telnet reference localhost as the loopback interface (meaning that it points to the same machine you are on). (such as ftp localhost, telnet localhost, etc) If you have additional questions, don't hesitate to let me know, Michael Viron Chief Systems and Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida http://www.webspinners.uwf.org/ At 04:16 PM 04/13/2001 -0400, you wrote: I changed my system's hostname (finding "localhost" far too impersonal). I changed it using the "hostname" command and also manually in /etc/hosts, and in a "host" of other files as their related processes notified me that they were still looking for "localhost". However, ping and telnet keep sending me messages via the cron daemon which still refer to localhost - ping just mentions the name, telnet reports an error because it can't find localhost. Neither of these messages bother me too much, except that I get an awful lot of mail from those two processes. How are ping and telnet getting the name localhost? When I type "hostname" in a terminal, my correct host.domain name string is returned. Thanks! Jay DeKing -- There is a fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'.
Re: [newbie] hostname changed, some processes don't know yet
At 02:02 PM 04/14/2001 -0400, you wrote: Sorry to intrude, but I am struggling with the same problem even though I am on a standalone PC. or if you want to add a different name not in DNS, 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.0.1 whateveryouwant.net whateveryouwant I fell in this conversation late: Do you mean you can have "both" 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost AND also 127.0.0.1 whateveryouwant.net whateveryouwant ? Yes, you can have both. Typically this is something that you would not do, especially on a corporate / university lan, where you would be better advised to add a network card and get an IP / DNS combination from the IT group. How is that possible and how do you do that? edit /etc/hosts -- you can have multiple names pointing to the same IP (we have something like 10). Where do you tell Mandrake 7.2 that your PC has 2 names? See above. 127.0.0.1 whateveryouwant.net whateveryouwant Can it be just 127.0.0.1 whateveryouwant or do you need 2 names here? You actually need both of the names. This setup will also depend on whether or not this is a computer connected to a larger network (corporate or university). If it is an internet accessible computer, then you cannot use the internet top-level domains (such as .edu, .net, .com, etc). Also what do you mean by "loopback"? Loopback (without going into too much detail) basically points to the same unix machine that you are on. For example, if I'm on wsdo, and type ssh localhost, it'll connect to wsdo through the machine's internal loopback interface. This is also explained in much greater detail in the ethernet howto available from http://www.linuxdoc.org . Michael -- Michael Viron Chief Systems and Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida http://www.webspinners.uwf.org/ . Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Michael D. Viron [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 11:21 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] hostname changed, some processes don't know yet Jay, Regardless of what other names you might have for your machine, you must still have localhost.localdomain. For example, we have a machine called wsdo, which has, in addition to the IP / hostname in DNS, the localhost / 127.0.0.1 loopback. Your host file should therefore look like: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx actualdns.whatever.com actualdns or if you want to add a different name not in DNS, 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.0.1 whateveryouwant.net whateveryouwant This must occur because many processes, including ping and telnet reference localhost as the loopback interface (meaning that it points to the same machine you are on). (such as ftp localhost, telnet localhost, etc) If you have additional questions, don't hesitate to let me know, Michael Viron Chief Systems and Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida http://www.webspinners.uwf.org/ At 04:16 PM 04/13/2001 -0400, you wrote: I changed my system's hostname (finding "localhost" far too impersonal). I changed it using the "hostname" command and also manually in /etc/hosts, and in a "host" of other files as their related processes notified me that they were still looking for "localhost". However, ping and telnet keep sending me messages via the cron daemon which still refer to localhost - ping just mentions the name, telnet reports an error because it can't find localhost. Neither of these messages bother me too much, except that I get an awful lot of mail from those two processes. How are ping and telnet getting the name localhost? When I type "hostname" in a terminal, my correct host.domain name string is returned. Thanks! Jay DeKing -- There is a fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness'.
Re: [newbie] Hostname problems...
On Monday 15 January 2001 08:24 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: You and Paul both had it right. After changing my hostname with DrakConf - linuxconf, I still needed to update /etc/hosts... Seems fine now. ;-) Maybe I've been doin it wrong for a long time, but I always just edit /etc/sysconfig/network Makes the change system wide and I've never had any problems doin it this way. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Hostname problems...
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday 15 January 2001 08:24 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: You and Paul both had it right. After changing my hostname with DrakConf - linuxconf, I still needed to update /etc/hosts... Seems fine now. ;-) Maybe I've been doin it wrong for a long time, but I always just edit /etc/sysconfig/network Makes the change system wide and I've never had any problems doin it this way. -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay Hi Tom. Well, the DrakConf - linuxconf route did that change. However, it did not change /etc/hosts, and until I changed it, I got errors when I started X (KDE) and from a few programs (such as Glitter - the newsreader). Dunno why. PS Note that the X server errors were non-fatal, everything seemed to go on and work as it would normally. In Glitters case however, it refused to work. ;-( -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] Hostname problems...
- -Its probably trying to lookup hostname "darkforce" from the network and -can't find it? - -Same thing happens to me when I change mine. - -For example the Floyd County Library here in Prestonsburg uses netins.net -as the hostname. It can look that up on the network. - No I don't. I use starfury.netins.net as my hostname for linux as well as my windows boot on that machine (got the 30gig installed friday) netins.net simply is the email service I have used for the last 8 years and since you know I hate change, I don't wanna switch. tho you are probably correct in the actual diagnosis. probably a hosts file that needs to be updated but since I have never installed linux without a network to put it on (even my home network) I have had no problems like this. -- Carl Lafferty | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.netins.net/showcase/carl -The-UQWK-guy-| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.fclib.org Need your daily fix of B5?? Check amazon.com or your local bookstore for B5 in print.
Re: [newbie] Hostname problems...
Yeah, I was just using that for an example. -- From: Carl Lafferty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Hostname problems... Date: Sunday, January 14, 2001 2:00 PM - -Its probably trying to lookup hostname "darkforce" from the network and -can't find it? - -Same thing happens to me when I change mine. - -For example the Floyd County Library here in Prestonsburg uses netins.net -as the hostname. It can look that up on the network. - No I don't. I use starfury.netins.net as my hostname for linux as well as my windows boot on that machine (got the 30gig installed friday) netins.net simply is the email service I have used for the last 8 years and since you know I hate change, I don't wanna switch. tho you are probably correct in the actual diagnosis. probably a hosts file that needs to be updated but since I have never installed linux without a network to put it on (even my home network) I have had no problems like this. -- Carl Lafferty | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.netins.net/showcase/carl -The-UQWK-guy-| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.fclib.org Need your daily fix of B5?? Check amazon.com or your local bookstore for B5 in print.
Re: [newbie] Hostname problems...
Hi Carl I hate to say I am a newbie, but we have all been there. Have windows 98 and Linux Mandrake 7.1 Deluxe loaded independently on my computer. Don't have books on them but do have a need for a guru. They were joined at the hip by my friend David. Can't wipe one with out killing the other. The windows programe is not running well at all. Get a blue screen in a heart beat. Linux is great but I need to tweek it to make it more user friendly. Need help if you have the time. Thank You Art Chris Hall wrote: Yeah, I was just using that for an example. -- From: Carl Lafferty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Hostname problems... Date: Sunday, January 14, 2001 2:00 PM - -Its probably trying to lookup hostname "darkforce" from the network and -can't find it? - -Same thing happens to me when I change mine. - -For example the Floyd County Library here in Prestonsburg uses netins.net -as the hostname. It can look that up on the network. - No I don't. I use starfury.netins.net as my hostname for linux as well as my windows boot on that machine (got the 30gig installed friday) netins.net simply is the email service I have used for the last 8 years and since you know I hate change, I don't wanna switch. tho you are probably correct in the actual diagnosis. probably a hosts file that needs to be updated but since I have never installed linux without a network to put it on (even my home network) I have had no problems like this. -- Carl Lafferty | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.netins.net/showcase/carl -The-UQWK-guy-| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.fclib.org Need your daily fix of B5?? Check amazon.com or your local bookstore for B5 in print.
Re: [newbie] Hostname
As root, load linuxconf. Go to Networking - Host name and IP network devices - Host name. You can change your host name here. In versions of Mandrake before 7.2, you could set your host name in the file /etc/hostname. I have found that this file no longer works, and if you have it you can even delete it with no side effects. On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 09:50, Geoff Thomas wrote: Where in the startup files is Hostname set? I'd like to permanantly change my hostname. Currently, the hostname is my ISP IP address (???) GT -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. Your mouse has moved. Windows must be rebooted to acknowledge this change.
Re: [newbie] Hostname
Hi Geoff.
Geoff Thomas wrote:
Where in the startup files is Hostname set? I'd like to permanantly
change my hostname. Currently, the hostname is my ISP IP address (???)
GT
The hostname is set by the hostname command, /bin/hostname. But usually
that's done by a startup script (/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit) that reads the
contents of a configuration file (/etc/sysconfig/network) that contains
the name you want. In that file, you should see a HOSTNAME variable.
Set it to what you like. Keep in mind, however, that if you're
connecting to your ISP via DHCP (as you likely would with a cable or DSL
line), you'll save yourself some grief by appending "localdomain" to
your hostname. So if for example you wanted to name your box Merle, you
would put this line in /etc/sysconfig/network:
HOSTNAME=merle.localdomain
That should cause your login prompt to "welcome you to merle."
If you have a static IP address, then forget what I just said. :-)
Other questions that begin "where in the startup files...?" can often be
answered by the following command:
# grep -i "text to search for" $(find /etc/rc.d -type f)
Here's the output for a "hostname" search:
# grep -i hostname $(find /etc/rc.d -type f)
/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql: pid_file=$datadir/`hostname`.pid
/etc/rc.d/rc:# things, such as setting the hostname.
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:if [ -z "$HOSTNAME" -o "$HOSTNAME" = "(none)" ];
then
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:HOSTNAME=localhost
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:# Set the hostname.
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:action "Setting hostname ${HOSTNAME}: " hostname
${HOSTNAME}
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: hostname ${HOSTNAME}
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: # Reset the hostname.
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: action "Resetting hostname ${HOSTNAME}: "
hostname ${HOSTNAME}
If you take a closer look at rc.sysinit, you'll see that the file
/etc/sysconfig/network is "sourced" near the top.
-- Jim
http://www.lads.com/~jim
Re: [newbie] Hostname
What is the benefit of setting your hostname, as opposed to letting DHCP
set it when it logs in?
peace,
Rog
http://www.slammingrooves.com
Registered Linux user #190719
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Jim Crossley wrote:
Hi Geoff.
Geoff Thomas wrote:
Where in the startup files is Hostname set? I'd like to permanantly
change my hostname. Currently, the hostname is my ISP IP address (???)
GT
The hostname is set by the hostname command, /bin/hostname. But usually
that's done by a startup script (/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit) that reads the
contents of a configuration file (/etc/sysconfig/network) that contains
the name you want. In that file, you should see a HOSTNAME variable.
Set it to what you like. Keep in mind, however, that if you're
connecting to your ISP via DHCP (as you likely would with a cable or DSL
line), you'll save yourself some grief by appending "localdomain" to
your hostname. So if for example you wanted to name your box Merle, you
would put this line in /etc/sysconfig/network:
HOSTNAME=merle.localdomain
That should cause your login prompt to "welcome you to merle."
If you have a static IP address, then forget what I just said. :-)
Other questions that begin "where in the startup files...?" can often be
answered by the following command:
# grep -i "text to search for" $(find /etc/rc.d -type f)
Here's the output for a "hostname" search:
# grep -i hostname $(find /etc/rc.d -type f)
/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql: pid_file=$datadir/`hostname`.pid
/etc/rc.d/rc:# things, such as setting the hostname.
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:if [ -z "$HOSTNAME" -o "$HOSTNAME" = "(none)" ];
then
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:HOSTNAME=localhost
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:# Set the hostname.
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:action "Setting hostname ${HOSTNAME}: " hostname
${HOSTNAME}
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: hostname ${HOSTNAME}
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: # Reset the hostname.
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: action "Resetting hostname ${HOSTNAME}: "
hostname ${HOSTNAME}
If you take a closer look at rc.sysinit, you'll see that the file
/etc/sysconfig/network is "sourced" near the top.
-- Jim
http://www.lads.com/~jim
Re: [newbie] Hostname
On Thursday 14 December 2000 05:36 pm, Jim Crossley wrote: So if for example you wanted to name your box Merle, you would put this line in /etc/sysconfig/network: HOSTNAME=merle.localdomain I like, HOSTNAME=Tom.BigDaleEarnhardtFan DOMAINNAME=BigDaleEarnhardtFan I've been wonderin when this thread was gonna get around to edit'g (as root) /etc/sysconfig/network ; -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Hostname
Roger Sherman wrote:
What is the benefit of setting your hostname, as opposed to letting DHCP
set it when it logs in?
peace,
Rog
http://www.slammingrooves.com
Registered Linux user #190719
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Jim Crossley wrote:
Hi Geoff.
Geoff Thomas wrote:
Where in the startup files is Hostname set? I'd like to permanantly
change my hostname. Currently, the hostname is my ISP IP address (???)
GT
The hostname is set by the hostname command, /bin/hostname. But usually
that's done by a startup script (/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit) that reads the
contents of a configuration file (/etc/sysconfig/network) that contains
the name you want. In that file, you should see a HOSTNAME variable.
Set it to what you like. Keep in mind, however, that if you're
connecting to your ISP via DHCP (as you likely would with a cable or DSL
line), you'll save yourself some grief by appending "localdomain" to
your hostname. So if for example you wanted to name your box Merle, you
would put this line in /etc/sysconfig/network:
HOSTNAME=merle.localdomain
That should cause your login prompt to "welcome you to merle."
If you have a static IP address, then forget what I just said. :-)
Other questions that begin "where in the startup files...?" can often be
answered by the following command:
# grep -i "text to search for" $(find /etc/rc.d -type f)
Here's the output for a "hostname" search:
# grep -i hostname $(find /etc/rc.d -type f)
/etc/rc.d/init.d/mysql: pid_file=$datadir/`hostname`.pid
/etc/rc.d/rc:# things, such as setting the hostname.
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:if [ -z "$HOSTNAME" -o "$HOSTNAME" = "(none)" ];
then
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:HOSTNAME=localhost
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:# Set the hostname.
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit:action "Setting hostname ${HOSTNAME}: " hostname
${HOSTNAME}
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: hostname ${HOSTNAME}
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: # Reset the hostname.
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: action "Resetting hostname ${HOSTNAME}: "
hostname ${HOSTNAME}
If you take a closer look at rc.sysinit, you'll see that the file
/etc/sysconfig/network is "sourced" near the top.
-- Jim
http://www.lads.com/~jim
Thanks. Incredibly helpful. I was using localhost.localdomain and in one of
the init scripts this is apparently no good. I changed it to
myname.localdomain and it worked. Thanks again.
GT
[newbie] Hostname
Where in the startup files is Hostname set? I'd like to permanantly change my hostname. Currently, the hostname is my ISP IP address (???) GT
Re: [newbie] Hostname
You can fire up linuxconf, or I think hosts are defined in /etc/hosts --- Geoff Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where in the startup files is Hostname set? I'd like to permanantly change my hostname. Currently, the hostname is my ISP IP address (???) GT __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
[newbie] hostname problems
I am running Mandrake 7.1 on a stand alone pc that I use to link up to the internet via modem but is not networked to any other pc. For costmetic reasons (the name appears in a variety of process and memory monitors) I decided to change my hostname to jeff_PC.home rather than hostname.localdomain. After several attempts to do so using the command "hostname", both as a user and as root I found the changes did not stick after a re-login. I then used DrakeConf/Linuxconf/Networking/Basic Host information and this did change it in a fashion that stuck after relogging in. Problem: Now on bootup, when I get to the screen of "OKs", I get an error message: "Starting httpd: cannot locate local server name. - Failed" And on shutdown: "failure on shutting down http" and leaves my external modem in a strange lights configuration. What have I done wrong and how do I fix this. Thanks. -- Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User 348854
[newbie] Hostname woes..
Sorry I have been asking so many q's lately, but I finally took windows off my puter. hehe.. Ok here is the deal, I am a dial up user, and no matter what I set my hostname to (well for all I know) when I boot up the http demeon fails because of hostname, and I would like to have a lame webserver while I am online. (just for play, I know I can just use the ip, and I also know that the hostname will not resolve just go with it) Also, back in 5.3 I set my hostname to blah.blah.com and in pine when I sent email it would say that. Now in pine it says hostname must... and will not send. Somebody help me so I can play with more stuff and ask more questions. =) -Bill
Re: [newbie] Hostname woes..
i THINK that your host name needs to be just "Localhost" no " of course
