>On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:16:14AM +0530, Dr . Sharukh K . R . Pavri .
wrote:
>> I had to re-install pcqlinux 7.1 and now I don't seem to be able to set
the
>> hostname. During installation, I had given the hostname as farzaan but it
>> still comes up as localhost.
>>
>> /etc/hosts/ has the following line
>>
>> 127.0.0.1 farzaan localhost.localdomain localhost


This seems to be confusing to me ( and maybe also to linux) The correct
syntax would be

<ID>    <Name>   <short name>
Like
127.0.0.1    localhost.localdoimain    localhost

Regards,
Mukund Deshmukh
Beta Computronics Pvt. Ltd.
Web site - http://betacomp.com






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