Hi. On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 22:32:06 -0500 Jon N <jdnandr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It does return the new hostname. But, I started wondering about legal > characters. If you remember my old one was 'localhost-01' but in my > new one I used an underscore (_). According to > netregister.biz/faqit.htm no symbols are usable except the hyphen (-). > No accented characters either. So I changed the name again and > rebooted once more. This time everything started just fine. You're citing wrong page. Right one is RFC 952, ASSUMPTIONS chapter. http://tools.ietf.org/search/rfc952 Not empty, but if it contains illegal characters it won't make any > difference. I didn't find any error messages that would clue me in to > the problem (like: "Warning, you have illegal characters in your > hostname" :-)). I did notice on one boot an error message that > 'hostname.sh' (in /etc/init.d) had failed, but I searched all my log > files and could not find any reference to it at all. I guess not > everything you see on screen during boot makes it into one of the log > files. Should be there. # echo FOO_BAR > /etc/hostname # /etc/init.d/hostname.sh start hostname: the specified hostname is invalid Still, the kernel itself allows one to shoot in the foot: # sysctl -w kernel.hostname=FOO_BAR kernel.hostname = FOO_BAR # hostname FOO_BAR Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131222145525.f03d080cd095463512d51...@gmail.com
