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Friday 11 July 2003 05:45 am> On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Norberto BENSA wrote: > > I've set /etc/hostname, and still the command hostname > > > > > returns "localhost". The point is that the computer has some official > > > name, to which one can send e-mail. I don't know in what other > > > > What official name? Do you have a domain? > > What I mean is that at booting the computer gets a name together with an > IP (in the case of my ISP, the name is made out of the IP and a > geographical prefix, plus the ISP domain name) Hello Jorge, I've to dig into the archives to find out what we were talking about :-/ You can set /etc/hostname to any name you like. My boxes are named after Ghostbusters' characters movie: stantz, zeddmore, venkman, dana, etc. So in my /etc/hostname I've put "venkman" (without quotes.) "venkman" gets its IP thru DHCP but this is not an issue, AFAICS dhcpd doesn't change /etc/hostname. HTH, Norberto
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