-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 February 2003 06:00 am, Reinout van Schouwen wrote: > Hi folks, > > Something I've been wanting to ask for a long time but keep forgetting > (until now): > > Whenever I do an upgrade/reinstall of Mandrake, my /etc/hosts is reset to > just the line for localhost.localdomain . Because I've named my machine > something other than localhost this leads to all kinds of problems with > proftpd and GNOME. The solution is fairly simple, just add a line to the > hosts file with my machine name in it and it works. > > But for unexperienced users this could be a big hurdle. Is this behaviour > of the installer a bug or a feature? > > Eager for your comments,
I used to do that, then when I got a laptop and went from having my ethernet dev up to having my wireless dev up and eth down there would be problems because they were different IP#'s, so here's what I've done for this purpose. [junfan@kato junfan]$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 kato.jeetkunedomaster.net kato localhost.localdomain localhost put the fqdn hostname and hostname on the same line with localhost stuff so it always uses loopback. - -- Jason Straight [EMAIL PROTECTED] icq: 1796276 pgp: http://www.JeetKuneDoMaster.net/~jason/pubkey.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBPkjk+RFHZPcobeHxAQJ1EgQAl+a0QNoNOMX3UF4wdZRKJdd+hKVdvYEA 6htc6XxIWETZ6jctN2FGZQTiWxL47b3OGfhq1rOTALaiDkzTJ9EWy6RAsQ+NfkjB rKpzkpvjWX7uLmYfKtXumpblkr+J09ybOEPl2mRIsueroSJ+iPls1iffCvKlIcoH DG64x9Tl9a0= =ZJi6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
