> On 12/11/03 Kathy Wills wrote: > > > When I reboot my computer to the console before typing startx, I see:
And there have been several suggestions, all different, and none of which solved Ms. Wills' problem.. Why is setting the hostname/domainname so convoluted? It's a different secret process on every distro I've encountered. And Gentoo has a place for a hostname, a dnsdomainname, and a nisdomainname. That I know of. The more (seemingly) similar info stored, the more things to try at random until I got something that (seems to) work. I am a bit of a newbie, but is there some rationale(s) for all this? Is there a POSIX or Linux standard way(s) for storing this information? Is there documentation(s) of how this is to be done? If someone can point me at TFM to R, I'd be happy to do that - and even write a little script that would ask intelligent questions and set relevant values. -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
