On 04 April 2011 at 23:37 Ralph Corderoy ra...@inputplus.co.uk wrote:
Hi Terry,
Maybe my memory is faulty, but my recollection of doing this on
earlier Unix systems, (like Solaris), is that the hostname went into
the file called hostname (or similar) and that did it (after a
On Monday, April 04, 2011 11:37:19 PM Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Terry,
Maybe my memory is faulty, but my recollection of doing this on
earlier Unix systems, (like Solaris), is that the hostname went into
the file called hostname (or similar) and that did it (after a
reboot).
Hi,
Here is a really basic question; how is the hostname defined in modern Linux
distributions? Generally this is done for us by the installer, so we don't have
to know how to do it, other than fill in the name of the PC into the box
provided.
The reason I'm asking is that I've just spent
Here is a really basic question; how is the hostname defined in modern Linux
distributions? Generally this is done for us by the installer, so we don't
have
to know how to do it, other than fill in the name of the PC into the box
provided.
I believe it's actually somewhat distro-specific.
On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 23:37:19 +0100, ra...@inputplus.co.uk said:
Note, the -f output is wrong here, I haven't got it to be correct yet
Put an entry in /etc/hosts with the fully qualified domain name (FQDN). If
the system has a fixed IP address, use it; if not, use 127.0.1.1.
Your /etc/hosts will
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