On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Karthik Vishwanath wrote about, hostname:
> Hi,
>
> Firstly I apologise for posting these many questions so frequently, but
> now being on the network here is fun and I want to try lots of things.
>
> There was a DHCP-mini howto and now I have DHCP running on boot. The
> problem now is that I get a very strange machine name. I understand that
> a lookup of that name with my domain will give me my ip address and that
> it happens because I am using DHCP. Is there anyway in which I can assign
> my machine its own name? Does it make sense to ask this question?
man hostname would have explained, however edit;
/etc/HOSTNAME
May i also suggest taking a look at the archives located at;
http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Linux/47/0
Use the search engine there to find a "Keyword"
Another good place for info;
http://www.linuxtopia.com
In this instance type HOSTNAME in the search box, answers enough,???
> Thanks,
> -Karthik.
>
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