On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, hevnsnt wrote:
> Sorry I have been asking so many q's lately, but I finally took windows
> off my puter. hehe..
>
> Ok here is the deal, I am a dial up user, and no matter what I set my
> hostname to (well for all I know) when I boot up the http demeon fails
> because of hostname, and I would like to have a lame webserver while I am
> online. (just for play, I know I can just use the ip, and I also know that
> the hostname will not resolve just go with it) Also, back in 5.3 I set my
> hostname to blah.blah.com and in pine when I sent email it would say that.
> Now in pine it says hostname must... and will not send. Somebody help me
> so I can play with more stuff and ask more questions. =)
>
> -Bill
>
>
Make sure your host is in /etc/hosts, if it gets to obstinate tell it lick
your boot and install bind and cacheing nameserver, and you can set the
reverse for 127.0.0.1 to what ever you want. As for mail, most ppp setup
programs have the option to "set hostname on connect" use it, it will/may
give you some grief in x, issue "xhost +local:" in a xterm should take
care of any whineing from Xfree86..
