I did a grep of /etc/* and found the following: hades root # grep hades /etc/* /etc/csh.env:setenv HOSTNAME 'hades.flapper.net' /etc/hostname:hades.flapper.net /etc/profile.env:export HOSTNAME='hades.flapper.net'
I believe the main (and reasonably standard place to set it) is /etc/hostname, which AFAIK only holds this value. The others are setting an environment variable which is set on login (I think they are for csh and bash) There maybe a command that sets these all, I don't know. In the past I have just set /etc/hostname manually (I am newish to gentoo). P.S.) Does anyone want to spread any light in why profile.env and csh.env don't retrieve the hostname from /etc/hostname? That would make sense to me! Martyn On Sunday 02 February 2003 9:50 pm, raptor wrote: > i do, > > hostname blah > > but after restart the host name is lost... how to preserve it after > restart... > > raptor > ps. in fact where is it stored.. > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
