Re: [LUG] Hostname woes

[Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Julian Hall wrote:
|
| The host name is usually set once at system startup in
| /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 or /etc/init.d/boot (normally by reading the contents
| of a file which contains the host name, e.g. /etc/hostname).
|
| Neither file exists on my system, so I skipped to:

So create it /etc/hostname

| The FQDN
| ...... Therefore it depends on the configuration (usually in
| /etc/host.conf) how you can change it. Usually (if the hosts file is
| parsed before DNS or NIS) you can change it in /etc/hosts.
|
| /etc/host.conf says:
| order hosts,bind
| multi on

I suspect this is all about finding the IP address to associate with the
hostname from /etc/hostname

We'd be very suspicious of anyone who claims to attend DCLUG meetings
regularly ;-)

	Simon

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