Re[2]: [newbie] How/where is HOSTNAME DOMAINNAME set?

2003-06-05 Thread rikona
Hello eric, Tuesday, June 3, 2003, 10:16:06 PM, you wrote: eh you can set it in linuxconf (run at cli) and it also explains it a bit... eh Click on the networking section. linuxconf doesn't want to run at cli. I get - 'error message from remadmin: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server'

Re[2]: [newbie] How/where is HOSTNAME DOMAINNAME set?

2003-06-05 Thread rikona
Hello eric, Tuesday, June 3, 2003, 10:16:06 PM, you wrote: eh you can set it in linuxconf (run at cli) and it also explains it a bit... eh Click on the networking section. As I was rummaging around in my new 9.1 upgrade, I noticed LinuxConf on the GUI menu - it seems to run OK there, but not

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] How/where is HOSTNAME DOMAINNAME set?

2003-06-05 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 09:30:45 -0700 rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: linuxconf doesn't want to run at cli. I get - 'error message from remadmin: Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server' 'error message from remadmin: Xlib: no protocol specified' And a few more lines like the above,

Re[4]: [newbie] How/where is HOSTNAME DOMAINNAME set?

2003-06-05 Thread rikona
Hello JoeHill, Wednesday, June 4, 2003, 11:17:15 AM, you wrote: J run it in curses mode, I had to too. If you read man linuxconf it J explains the switch you need to use. It's kinda like text mode but J with menus and all that. Yep - tried it with --text, and it runs. It also runs from the GUI

Re: Re[4]: [newbie] How/where is HOSTNAME DOMAINNAME set?

2003-06-05 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 13:34:23 -0700 rikona [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: linuxconf is asking for 'primary name + domain'. I don't understand what to put there. My ISP is sonic.net - that doesn't sound like my 'domain', is it? No. Or is it the local-net workgroup name, which is different? yes,

[newbie] How/where is HOSTNAME DOMAINNAME set?

2003-06-04 Thread rikona
Hello, I'm still trying to understand the ramifications of these variables in networking, mailing, and ??? There seems to be a lot of help in the 'bits and pieces' documentation, and I can get parts of the picture from this, but - is there something like a broader overview of how these parts go

Re: [newbie] How/where is HOSTNAME DOMAINNAME set?

2003-06-04 Thread eric huff
you can set it in linuxconf (run at cli) and it also explains it a bit... Click on the networking section. eric On Tue June 3 2003 11:00 am, rikona wrote: Hello, I'm still trying to understand the ramifications of these variables in networking, mailing, and ??? There seems to be a lot of