I have been trying to find out the exact and proper way to set the host and
domain name on Debian and it's clear as mud. Searching the internet gives all
sorts of conflicting answers.
First, I thought the way to do it was to put the FQDN in /etc/hostname. Then I
ended up with
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
Can anyone who /knows/ tell me what the proper officially correct ways of
setting the hostname and the FQDN are, please?
Thanks,
JW
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in /etc/hostname :
myhostname
in /etc/hosts:
10.0.0.120 myhostname.mydomain.com myhostname
set
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 11:38:01AM -0500, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
I have been trying to find out the exact and proper way to set the
host and domain name on Debian and it's clear as mud. Searching the
internet gives all sorts of conflicting answers.
Of course. Debian changes. UNIX changes.
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