On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 01:15, Karasik, Vitaly wrote:
you need to add two strings to
/etc/sysconfig/network :
DHCP_HOSTNAME=hostname
DHCPCARG=-t 10
IMO, when you select the option to manually set your hostanme in r-c-n
it should add the DHCP_HOSTNAME entry to the system. Maybe I'll go
I am using RH 7.1 and the options you specified do not work, i.e., the timeout is
still 3 minutes...
Perhaps it will be best for me to use the ISC DHCP client...
for pump you should change in your /etc/pump.conf file
timeout hostname
parameters, see man pump for more
Hello,
If I wanted to block an httpd request for a hostname via my httpd.conf file,
how could I block it by domain name? I.E., if someone pointed a hostname of
'something.joe.com' at my IP address using DNS servers beyond my control,
for some reason, and I wanted to basically kill every request
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:43:53AM -0400, Joe Szilagyi wrote:
If I wanted to block an httpd request for a hostname via my httpd.conf file,
how could I block it by domain name? I.E., if someone pointed a hostname of
'something.joe.com' at my IP address using DNS servers beyond my control
you need to add two strings to
/etc/sysconfig/network :
DHCP_HOSTNAME=hostname
DHCPCARG=-t 10
Regards,
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you need to add two strings to
/etc/sysconfig/network :
DHCP_HOSTNAME=hostname
DHCPCARG=-t 10
Regards,
Vitaly Karasik, RHCE
Does anyone know how to get a DHCP client to send it's hostname to the DHCP server
when running RH 7.1 or RH 7.2?
In RH 8.0 and up the /etc/dhclient.conf file option 'send fqdn.fqdn host.domain.com'
can be used, but /etc/dhclient.conf is not supported in RH 7.1 or RH 7.2. (I imagine
At 00:22 9/8/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Shorewall is setup to only allow ports 53, 80, 25, 123, 443
FYI, on the Shorewall site, in the contrib directory, there is a very
simply Mini-HOWTO I wrote on using Portsentry in combination with Shorewall
to dynamic, real-time blocking of Bad People [tm] who
domains run on about 30 IP addresses, and the reverse DNS
on all 30 addresses is the same: rita.otherdomain.com. No one has yet cared.
This is also a very true point ! and the same holds for the real hostname
of the machine as it appears in your Received: headers.
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this other than resetting the hostname for the
entire server?.
In addition to what Steve and Roldolfo have already said...
I added the following to my .mc file to address your question.
define(`confDOMAIN_NAME',`mail.mydomain.tld')dnl
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webserver1.maindomain.com
How can I change this other than resetting the hostname for the
entire server?.
In addition to what Steve and Roldolfo have already said...
I added the following to my .mc file to address your question.
define(`confDOMAIN_NAME
is not particularly useful but people do anyway)
Again, our 100 domains run on about 30 IP addresses, and the reverse DNS
on all 30 addresses is the same: rita.otherdomain.com. No one has yet cared.
This is also a very true point ! and the same holds for the real hostname
of the machine
On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 01:00, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
At 00:22 9/8/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Shorewall is setup to only allow ports 53, 80, 25, 123, 443
FYI, on the Shorewall site, in the contrib directory, there is a very
simply Mini-HOWTO I wrote on using Portsentry in combination with
.prodigy.net [64.164.98.56]) by
webserver1.maindomain.com
How can I change this other than resetting the hostname for the entire
server?.
The fix may be related to my next question regarding reverse dns.
I am about to mail the colo company where this server lives to request
that the reverse
Hi,
You shouldn't have to reboot after changing it, just logout. Do the
hostname new_hostname after changing it in the network file.
Also, # just means to execute it, it doesn't mean you need to use service,
you can ignore it.
Re: Please pardon another dumb question, but Where do you run
Subject : Re: Change hostname [Re:RHLv1#8131]
*==}- Scott;
Thank-you for asking this. I sometimes think it's the simple
questions that most need answering, In this case, I think I
should add this thread to my cribnotes file...
*==}- Richard;
Pardon me for asking a dumb question, but when you
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
*==}- Bill:
Please pardon another dumb question, but Where do you run
# service network restart?
Does the # signify execute the service command at the root prompt?
I tried $ man service yeild: No manual entry for service
Of course, since I'm running a
His is going to sound like a very simple question...so I apologize to those
who know RH backwards and forwards. I have a standard RH9 install. It is
running web,dns,mysql and postfix.
During the installation process it asked for the hostname of the computer. I
now want to change it. Where should
Hi,
Be sure to change it in /etc/sysconfig/network as well. I would also set
the hostname with hostname new_hostname also.
Thank you,
Richard Bewley
At 03:57 PM 7/15/2003 -0400, you wrote:
His is going to sound like a very simple question...so I apologize to those
who know RH backwards
Hostname is in the following file.
/etc/syscofig/network
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His is going to sound like a very simple question
Thank you. I missed this
Scott
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Hostname is in the following file.
/etc/syscofig/network
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On RH 7.3, it's in /etc/sysconfig/network that you have to change the
hostname. And then you still have to logout and log back in before it is
visible...
Hope this helps...
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After I changed
/etc/syscofig/network
I did
service network restart
and after it came back up
hostname
It still shows the old hostname. Do I need to do a complete shutdown?
Scott Antonivich
General Manager
Turnpike Technologies
High Speed Internet Access for Home and Office
Dialup, Web
Jacques Lederer wrote:
On RH 7.3, it's in /etc/sysconfig/network that you have to change the
hostname. And then you still have to logout and log back in before it is
visible...
Hope this helps...
Jack
Don't need to log out. Simply run
# service network restart
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Hi,
# hostname new_hostname enter
Thank you,
Richard Bewley
At 04:11 PM 7/15/2003 -0400, you wrote:
After I changed
/etc/syscofig/network
I did
service network restart
and after it came back up
hostname
It still shows the old hostname. Do I need to do a complete shutdown?
Scott
Yes, but then you still get the old name in the prompt so long as you have
not logged out...
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email, so I tried to
change it back. I enabled DHCP on the router, reset everything, including
making sure that eth0 gets its IP from the DHCP server.
So now the router won't route. I can ping hosts on the internet by IP and
by hostname, but I can only browse by IP (which is not exactly practical
able to browse or get email, so I
tried to change it back. I enabled DHCP on the router, reset
everything, including making sure that eth0 gets its IP from the DHCP
server.
So now the router won't route. I can ping hosts on the internet by IP
and by hostname, but I can only browse by IP (which
that it can't resolve the hostname, livia. However, the
/etc/hosts file DOES contain
127.0.0.1livialocalhost.localdomainlocalhost
and has contained that line throughout this entire mess.
A swirly is always amusing (as long as I am not the one receiving it.
In your /etc/resolv.conf you
the router won't route. I can ping hosts on the internet by IP and
by hostname, but I can only browse by IP (which is not exactly practical).
I tried to connect directly to the cable modem, taking the router out of
the loop, and I can still ping by IP or hostname, but I still can't browse.
(I also tried
that eth0 gets its IP from the DHCP
server.
So now the router won't route. I can ping hosts on the internet by IP
and by hostname, but I can only browse by IP (which is not exactly
practical). I tried to connect directly to the cable modem, taking the
router out of the loop, and I can still ping
, including making sure that eth0 gets its IP from the DHCP
server.
So now the router won't route. I can ping hosts on the internet by IP
and by hostname, but I can only browse by IP (which is not exactly
practical). I tried to connect directly to the cable modem, taking the
router out
At 04:46 PM 5/29/2003 -0500, you wrote:
Michelle:
[Apologies for sending this message in HTML format!]
When you reconfigured your RH box to use static a static IP address, did
you ALSO configure at least one name server address in the network
settings, as well?
It sounds like your LinkSys
to ping the default gateway (should be the Linksys Router?)
Try pinging the DNS servers that you have listed in your
/etc/resolv.conf by IP address.
If you can ping a hostname, like ping www.swirly.com
Try doing dig www.swirly.com
Try doing dig www.swirly.com | grep SERVER
Also try wget http
Michelle:
You might also want to try changing the keyword server to
nameserver. The man page for resolv.conf specifies nameserver as the
keyword that defines the IP addresses of the name servers that your
system should query. I don't see anything that suggests server is an
acceptable
Michelle,
Michelle Lowman wrote:
I do have the same DNS settings for the RH box, the Windows box, and
the router, and I have changed both RH and Windows back to getting
dynamic IP's. THAT part is working, including getting the right DNS
information. However, name lookups only work with ping
This doesn't sound like a dns issue from what I have read in the posts.
Can you browse by IP? A lot of people will test ping by both IP and
name, but I have seen a lot of good techs not do the same with the
browser. Did you install with the default firewall settings? Did you
make any changes to
At 04:25 PM 5/29/2003 -0700, you wrote:
This doesn't sound like a dns issue from what I have read in the posts.
Can you browse by IP? A lot of people will test ping by both IP and
name, but I have seen a lot of good techs not do the same with the
browser. Did you install with the default
On Thursday 29 May 2003 20:05, Michelle Lowman wrote:
At 04:25 PM 5/29/2003 -0700, you wrote:
This doesn't sound like a dns issue from what I have read in the posts.
Can you browse by IP? A lot of people will test ping by both IP and
name, but I have seen a lot of good techs not do the same
So, pinging hostnames and ip's works.. what about ssh or telnet or
ftp? Other apps from the command line? Other GUI apps? is it ONLY the
browser that is having the hostname problems?
That sounds extremely odd I would suggest that maybe your browser
has some sort of proxy configured
trying to convince my RH8 box to talk to my dsl modem. Keep seeing hostname
set as localhost on boot up, which is not good, as my ISP is looking for a
specific registered hostname (used with my old win2K machine) which works
just fine on that machine. How do I set the host or hostname and have
You have to edit /etc/sysconfig/networks /etc/hosts restart ...
Regds,
santosh
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trying to convince my RH8 box to talk to my dsl modem. Keep seeing
hostname
set as localhost on boot up, which is not good, as my ISP is looking for
a
specific registered hostname (used with my old win2K machine
You can also use the Gui - Network Device Control - under System Tools,
wich alows you to that
and much more with a very userfriendly grafic interface !
Binyon Steve Contr Det 4 AFC2TIG/ASRCC wrote:
I believe in the /etc/sysconfig/network file you can add the line:
HOSTNAME=myhostname
I believe in the /etc/sysconfig/network file you can add the line:
HOSTNAME=myhostname
and it will do what you wish. (you need to do a 'service network restart'
if you wish to make it happen asap).
HTH
smbinyon
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Just installed RH8 on my notebook which uses DHCP to get on my
LAN/internet. This in turn keeps asigning my notebook name to be
dhcppc6 -- which aside from being asthetically unappealing, also
causes X/Gnome to give a warning each time it starts. How can I set my
notebook's hostname to be say
can I set my
notebook's hostname to be say, localhost or dell or something and
STAY that way? I've tried hostname localhost and it sets it for that
session but then gets reset. Ugh. I grep 'hostname' /etc/ and saw
rc.sysinit has some stuff, but didn't seem obvious where to change?
DÆVID
beautifully for IP address, gateway and DNS settings, however,
for some reason, the HOSTNAME doesn't get set properly (i.e. it stays on the
old value). To me, it looks as if HOSTNAME is set too early, i.e. before
my script runs and sets the correct symlinks. This is confirmed by the fact
that if I boot twice
and
work. Further, I've added a script to the init scripts, which evaluates said
variable and sets the correct symlinks to the files I mentioned.
This works beautifully for IP address, gateway and DNS settings, however,
for some reason, the HOSTNAME doesn't get set properly (i.e. it stays
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 04:28:42PM +0800, Gregory Hosler wrote:
/etc/sysconfig/network
which is read when you bring up your network (or anything that reads
/etc/sysconfig/network)
Yup, that's where the parameters are set, but I was after where the hostname
is actually set (i.e. /etc
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On 03-Nov-2002/17:27 -0700, Devin Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just installed RH 8.0. Every time I boot my hostname changes from
localhost.localdomain to x1-6-00-08-0e-d5-de-77. During boot the line
'Setting hostname localhost.localdomains [OK
Just installed RH 8.0. Every time I boot my hostname changes from
localhost.localdomain to x1-6-00-08-0e-d5-de-77. During boot the line
'Setting hostname localhost.localdomains [OK]' appears but when the OS
is finally booted the hostname is wrong again. I checked the files in
/etc that I
On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Devin Henderson wrote:
Just installed RH 8.0. Every time I boot my hostname changes from
localhost.localdomain to x1-6-00-08-0e-d5-de-77. During boot the line
'Setting hostname localhost.localdomains [OK]' appears but when the OS
is finally booted the hostname is wrong
Blaine Armsterd wrote:
Try setting a real hostname and see if DHCP still overrides it.
how do I set a real hostname? Thanks, Blaine
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On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Devin Henderson wrote:
Blaine Armsterd wrote:
Try setting a real hostname and see if DHCP still overrides it.
how do I set a real hostname? Thanks, Blaine
hostname is a command, or vi /etc/sysconfig/network and set
HOSTNAME=yourhostname
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On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Devin Henderson wrote:
Blaine Armsterd wrote:
Try setting a real hostname and see if DHCP still overrides it.
how do I set a real hostname? Thanks, Blaine
hostname is a command, or vi /etc/sysconfig/network and set
HOSTNAME=yourhostname
I have tried
I am able to change my hostname by editing the /etc/sysconfig/network file.
but my application which uses a license server does not want to recognize the
new hostname. If I change my hostname back to 127.0.0.1 the license server
works correctly.
Is there any other files that I need to edit
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I am able to change my hostname by editing the /etc/sysconfig/network file.
but my application which uses a license server does not want to recognize the
new hostname. If I change my
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Will Mendez wrote:
Is there any other files that I need to edit instead of using the
deafult loopback address.
Edit /etc/hosts and change localhost.localdomain to your real hostname,
but make absolutely sure that you leave localhost as an alias, or things
will break
What is the better way to change the hostname and IP address on Red Hat
Linux 7.3?
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For hostname edit rc.sysconfig and /etc/hosts.
I'am sure what u mean about the ip-address. But for your Lan card u set in /etc/hosts and apply the local ip-address to your lan card by typing this /sbin/ifconfig eth1 or eth0 192.168.0.1 up
The ip 192.168.0.1 ia a class c private network.
Hong Tian
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 07:42, Hong Tian wrote:
What is the better way to change the hostname and IP address on Red Hat
Linux 7.3?
-Thanks.
try neat
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On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 08:42:10AM -0400, Hong Tian wrote:
What is the better way to change the hostname and IP address on Red Hat
Linux 7.3?
If you want a GUI, use neat.
If you want a TUI, edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, /etc/hosts
and /etc/sysconfig/network, then run
Hong Tian wrote:
What is the better way to change the hostname and IP address on Red Hat
Linux 7.3?
-Thanks.
You might like to look at following files
/etc/HOSTNAME
/etc/sysconfig/network
/etc/hosts
Bounce box.
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cd /etc/sysconfic/network-script/
Edit the file ifcfg-ethx
And change the values.
Then /etc/init.d/network restart
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What
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Then /etc/init.d/network restart
Or simply type service network restart on RH systems
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 07:42, Hong Tian wrote:
What is the better way to change the hostname and IP address on Red Hat
Linux 7.3?
-Thanks.
try neat
Bret
Hey Bret - is 'neat' standard on RH 7.3? With 7.2 I had to 'up2date
redhat-config-network' to get it.
Regards,
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On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 19:22, Edward Dekkers wrote:
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 07:42, Hong Tian wrote:
What is the better way to change the hostname and IP address on Red Hat
Linux 7.3?
-Thanks.
try neat
Bret
Hey Bret - is 'neat' standard on RH 7.3? With 7.2 I had to 'up2date
hi,
* rahul b jain cs student ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I was trying to change the host name of my linux machine. I did so by
editing the file /etc/sysconfig/network. If i reboot the system, it works
fine recognizing the new hostname. However if i reboot the system again,
it goes back
the host name of my linux machine. I did so by
editing the file /etc/sysconfig/network. If i reboot the system, it works
fine recognizing the new hostname. However if i reboot the system again,
it goes back to its old hostname.
pls send some more details regarding the version of Linux
Hi,
I was trying to change the host name of my linux machine. I did so by
editing the file /etc/sysconfig/network. If i reboot the system, it works
fine recognizing the new hostname. However if i reboot the system again,
it goes back to its old hostname.
Could anyone tell me, what
On 7/12/02 12:40 AM, Kevin Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:58:26 -0400, Tony wrote:
If he has has access to an external SMTP server that will relay for
authenticated connections, he can setup sendmail as an SMTP auth client.
The Sendmail web site
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On 7/12/02 12:40 AM, Kevin Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:58:26 -0400, Tony wrote:
If he has has access to an external SMTP server that will relay for
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On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:58:26 -0400, Tony wrote:
If he has has access to an external SMTP server that will relay for
authenticated connections, he can setup sendmail as an SMTP auth
On 7/9/02 8:09 AM, Chris Harris (CW) [EMAIL PROTECTED] pressed the
keys forming the message:
Sorry I've been busy getting married this weekend, so as you can imagine
my mind has been on other things.
...and you're back posting on this list already? Geez. Honeymoon's over,
huh?
I'll have a
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On 11-Jul-2002/12:27 -0400, Edward Marczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could be a coincidence in timingperhaps. You mention pop3 machines.
Those are also smtp forwarders? You say you can send mail to them, but POP
doesn't send mail, that's why I
.
Then by messing around with hostname, domainname, etc. commands I think I have
it right now.
Funny thing was that I got email to all other locations working and still
couldn't post to this list. It seems that this list accepts or rejects
postings based on the name part of the From: header and not the email
.
Then by messing around with hostname, domainname, etc. commands I think I have
it right now.
Lets see if this makes it to the list :-)
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On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:58:26 -0400, Tony wrote:
If he has has access to an external SMTP server that will relay for
authenticated connections, he can setup sendmail as an SMTP auth client.
The Sendmail web site http://www.sendmail.org/ has details.
Auth client. Does that mean it can act as a
and static IP address (was hostname)
On 7/8/02 12:09 AM, Kevin Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] pressed the
keys forming the
message:
I must admit that I assumed the original sender wasn't
getting any 'Relaying
denied' type messages sent back to him. If this is the
case, then, as you
say, he
On 7/8/02 12:09 AM, Kevin Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] pressed the keys forming the
message:
I must admit that I assumed the original sender wasn't getting any 'Relaying
denied' type messages sent back to him. If this is the case, then, as you
say, he will have to use a server that he is
Hi,
On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 23:53, Jay Daniels wrote:
You have a structure different from:
IP_address FQDNalias1 alias2
Correct
IP_address hostname FQDN add more aliases here like: www mail ftp
Have you tried the hostname, hostname --fqdn, domainname and
dnsdomainname
On Sat, 06 Jul 2002 16:59:09 -0400, Edward wrote:
Actually, there is a little magic in sending email. It's called
authentication. He's probably set to use his own ISP's mail server.
But when he's on his network, the ISP's mail server is rejecting the
mail (won't relay). He may just need to
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 08:48:29 -0400, Chris wrote:
Thanks to everyone who replied to my previous query with the subject
hostname.
I now have another query, which I think is related. I use my laptop both on a
network, with a fixed IP address at work, and at home and on the move via
dial-up using
Hi. I posted this message a while back, but never saw whether it made
it to the list or not. If it was answered, forgive me for missing it.
I really would like to solve my hostname problem.
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 08:39:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED
Kevin Myers wrote:
Hi! Did you sort this out?
I would look in the log files for possible reasons why the mail didn't get
sent. There's no particular magic in sending emails: what happens if you
traceroute to an external server while on the network? If you've got a
route, can you telnet
I had the same problem with my Dell Laptop. My ISDN router was assigning (or
my laptop was homesteading) a hostname just like the ones you're getting. I
was told everything from check /this/file/here (fill in the blank) to it
must be your router.
My router configuration has been examined
I use the following command
hostname newnamehere
placeing the name of the new hostname you would like in the place labeled newnamehere
this should work for it works for me I f not there might be some other problem that is
causeing it to happen
7/6/2002 3:46:57 PM, Bill Johnson [EMAIL
I believe if you edit /etc/sysconfig/network it will solve your problem
during botup setting hostname is read from this file. Well at least it
work for me.
Bruce
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Can somebody help me with setting the hostname on my laptop workstation
installation running RH7.3.
Currently my email headers have the something like received: from
localhost.localdomain and I would like that to be something a bit more
meaningful. What do I have to setup?
From what I can
Thanks to everyone who replied to my previous query with the subject
hostname.
I now have another query, which I think is related. I use my laptop both on a
network, with a fixed IP address at work, and at home and on the move via
dial-up using dynamically assigned IP addresses. I have
# hostname newhostname
then edit /etc/sysconfig/network
and change the hostname entry to the new name
restart
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daniel a. g. quinn
starving programmer
giving it up would mean... it would mean that all along they'd been wrong.
it would mean that they'd never
I now have another query, which I think is related. I use my laptop both
on a
network, with a fixed IP address at work, and at home and on the move
via
dial-up using dynamically assigned IP addresses. I have problems with
this;
When I'm on the network, as now, I can't seem to send emails outside
On Wednesday 03 July 2002 10:48, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
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On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 19:57, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 07:27:46PM -0400, Jay Daniels wrote:
Then
machine on the network to
reference the box or if you want to use a short name like the hostname
part to address the machine.
To keep with conformity and avoid using the line that says DO NOT REMOVE
THIS LINE on redhat linux. You can use this format instead...
ip_address hostname alias
Now if you
Can somebody point in the right direction to configure the hostname for
my laptop workstation installation.
At the moment the email headers from that machine show something like
received: from localhost.localdomain I would like to change this to
something more meaningful. From what I can read
On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 15:43, Chris Harris CW wrote:
Can somebody point in the right direction to configure the hostname for
my laptop workstation installation.
At the moment the email headers from that machine show something like
received: from localhost.localdomain I would like to change
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Can somebody point in the right direction to configure the hostname for
my laptop workstation installation.
Edit /etc/hosts and assign the real hostname to the real IP address
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On 03-Jul-2002/16:26 -0400, Jay Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now I have a question about the hosts file, why does redhat do the hosts
file backwards compared to everyone else?
Red Hat is not backward.
man 5 hosts
Tony
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On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 15:43, Chris Harris CW wrote:
At the moment the email headers from that machine show something like
received: from localhost.localdomain I would like to change this to
something more meaningful. From what I can read on the net I need to
create a file called /etc/hostname
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