On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 12:44:39PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > I won't even suggest running /etc/init.d/hostname.sh without rebooting > in this case. There is too much baggage to recommend restarting > everything that needs it. All of the mail daemons. Possibly > networking. Possibly many things. Simpler to reboot after changing > something fundamental like the kernel or the hostname.
Well, the maximum number of things which need it are those that are running.. a simple runlevel change would do it; or just restart the various networking things. On a desktop that would probably be very few: inetd and exim most likely. > Because it is so complicated to get right and so different between > distros there is no single command to run to change the hostname. > There might be, there could be, but there isn't. It is too easy to > edit /etc/hostname. I'll tell you what sucks, trying to change the domain name. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
