Gentlepeople, I am doing a number of installs with different distributions and different hardware (for the purposes of testing and learning). These installations succeed to varying degrees including zero. On the non-zero installs, I often want to fix or customize the installation by editing various configuration files (if I can figure out which one I want). So I have two main questions:
(1) On a RedHat v7.1 installation, where is the hostname set? Do I need to specify a fully qualified name for the host? If so, do I need to otherwise set the default domain of the host and where? (2) In general, is there a complete reference of the configuration files and what you set in them that I can refer to in future (rather than asking dumb questions I can then RTFM and ask smart(???) questions)? Are the files distribution specific? If so, and assuming this information exists, where would I find such information for at least RedHat/Mandrake, Debian and Slackware? And finally, I have seen mention in some documentation some sort of effort towards standardising various aspects of Linux, is this happening with the configuration files (and if so where)? TIA. Brendan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
