New Install

[antonio montagnani]

Krikket ha scritto:

>On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Philip Wyett wrote:
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>>On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 05:43, Krikket wrote:
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>>>I've recently switched over my laptop from SuSE 9.0 to Fedora Core 1.  So
>>>far I like what I see.
>>>
>>>Unfortunately for me, there are a few things that are different in the
>>>distributions that have me stumped.  I'm hoping someone out there can lend
>>>me a pointer or two...
>>>
>>>1>  Assign the machine name.  With SuSE, I could either change a setting
>>>in YaST or edit /etc/HOSTNAME to set the machine name from "localhost" to
>>>"serenity".  (Or anything else I wanted...)  This file doesn't appear to
>>>exist with Fedora.  How do I set it?
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>You could have set this at install time, but see in /etc/hosts.
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>
>Where?!?  Due to some bad hardware that I *was* going to use as a server,
>I've gone through the Fedora install process at least half a dozen times
>in the last few days, and I haven't seen it anywhere...
>
>As for /etc/hosts I have three lines:
>
># (Commentary about not deleting the second line)
># (More commentary)
>
>127.0.0.1		localhost.localdomain localhost
>
>What should I be modifying?  I've tried playing around with both
>occurances of "localhost".  If I modify the first, I get an error when I
>try to enter Gnome.  If I modify the second, it appears to do nothing.
>(Or is there yet another variable I have to change to see it reflected in
>my shell prompt?)
>
>Or am I missing something even more basic?
>
>Krikket
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This is my hosts file for a machine called Fedora....

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1    Fedora    localhost.localdomain    localhost

Antonio

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