This one time, at band camp, Brendan Dacre wrote: >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?
/etc/sysconfig/network if i recall correctly. HOSTNAME=host.domain.foo >(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)? some config files have manpages in section 5. others you can find in info. some distros even comment their config files. /usr/share/doc and google at a last resort. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
