Slackware stores in hostname file in /etc. It really depends on rc files which load up the system. Debian picks the hostname from /etc/hosts
RedHat most Windows Registry compliant of them all has it is Windows .ini file style in /etc/sysconfig/network Supreet On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 12:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Philip S Tellis writes: > > > Sometime Today, q u a s i assembled some asciibets to say: > > > >> > use the hostname command. > >> > >> or edit /etc/hostname > > > > no, use the hostname command. /etc/hostname is not the only place where > > the hostname is stored. > > I was unaware of this - pray can I know where else the hostname is stored on > various GNU/Linux distributions ? -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
