YES dead rat always screws up /etc/host file, It has become my habit to edit it after installation. Regards, Mukund Deshmukh Beta Computronics Pvt. Ltd. Web site - http://betacomp.com
-----Original Message----- From: Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: LIH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, March 21, 2002 2:31 PM Subject: Re: [LIH] hostname problem >On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, mukund wrote: > >> >> >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 > >Yes that is how it is given in the man page but this is what RH puts >there. I have not tinkered with the file. > >Sharukh >-- >Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri >Mumbai, India. > >_______________________________________________ >linux-india-help mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help > _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
