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,
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/syscon
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> > 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" f
Yeah, I was just using that for an example.
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> 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
->
->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
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
