-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 OK, this question pops up periodically and I have asked it myself. How does one assign a hostname to their system without breaking it and so that it comes up every time one boots? I managed to get my laptop to be called lapdog.ravenhome.net but cannot recall how. My hosts file contains both 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain 10.0.0.1 lapdog.ravenhome.net
This isn't enough, however. I somehow managed to get my xterm prompt to display the lapdog.ravenhome.net name as well but cannot recall how. Simply setting "hostname <desired hostname>" will break the current session and require a logout/login to get past it. It will also only last as long as the current session. If I reboot it will be back to localhost.localdomain. I want my desktop system to identify itself as something other than localhost.localdomain and I want it to do it with every bootup, login, etc. How do I do this? Ultimately, I will be setting up (hopefully) a local home network and I will require the desktop to be a particular name for this to work. praedor - -- Conservatives of all times are adventitious liars. - - Friedrich Nietzsche. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE928oW1i/6R1B/Yh0RAnlHAJ9Hr3g9Dxb8xNS2h6Dr5fmQwVqvZwCfWX1n 9ZdSjl56MhOgptmddXTZKlk= =BkT/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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