Hello, I'm writing from my parent's box which is running RH9 & Gnome on the desktop, which incidentally as self-proclaimed 'proud luddites' they both absolutely love using in comparison to the other computing alternatives they have tried previously. The box hooks up to the net with Telstra big pond cable, which goes ok. My problem is this, I once hooked up my laptop running debian to the same modem, which then seemed to re-name the connection to 'debian' the login screen on red hat said "welcome to debain" then logging into gnome said it was unable to resolve 'debian' and to add debian to /etc/hosts. (which I did) I then booted Gnoppix on their box to see how that went, and the connection was renamed credativ and the same error message.
Obviously I have no clue about what I'm doing here, ideally I'd like to be able to give the connection/computer a name on boot from RH9 something like "Mum & Dad's box" or just "Ashburner" Any suggestions? /etc/hosts now looks like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost debian hostname.domain.com Link 144.136.71.171 debian hostname.domain.com Link 144.136.71.171 credativ hostname.domain.com Thanks SLUG Hal PS as a non-professional Linux user who has only recently started coming along to slug meetings and reading the mailing list, can I just say it is fantastic and very rewarding. Thank you to all concerned. -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup CareerBuilder.com has over 400,000 jobs. Be smarter about your job search http://corp.mail.com/careers -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
