On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 20:28, stefmit wrote: > Mandrake 9.0 (still) - laptop moving all over the place (i.e. IP address > obtained via DHCP) - having built some tools (phpMyAdmin, mysqlnavigator, > etc.) while connected in one place, with the FQDN (instead of localhost) I am > having now problems when trying to use those tools from different places. > Reason: simple - unless I manually change the /etc/hosts with the specific IP > address of my FQDN, nothing would work.'
Suggestion... my hosts does this 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.0.1 jamlap.linuxpda.biz jamlap this way no matter where I go or what my IP number is ..... I always resolve. proftpd won't start right no matter what I do if this isn't true. > > If I try the following two lines - one at a time - from the CLI, I get the > proper $IPADDR: > > my_machine$ source /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info > my_machine$ ping $IPADDR > > but if I try to use a script like this: > > source /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info > $IPADDR machine.domain.extension machine > > inside /etc/hosts, or "cat"-ed or >>-ed to /etc/hosts, it does not seem to > work?!? > > Does anybody have a cleaner way of updating /etc/hosts from dhcp info? > > Thx, > Stef > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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