Re: My machine froze after name change

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 03:01 PM 10/6/99 -0400, Joe wrote:
>Last night I attempted to network my two computers together.  One of the
>things I did was I changed my notebook's name from localhost.localdomain
>to something else.  After I restarted my machine, many of the services
>froze on startup (amd, postfix, samba, sendmail).  Why do they do this and
>how can I fix this problem while being able to change my machine name?

Are they valid DNS names?  It sounds like a DNS problem.  Also, are you
saying that Linux now crashes on the laptop?  Because I've found that
time-outs look a lot like a crash.  I would give it a good long time and
see if maybe it comes up without all the services.  Then you can see what
errors have occurred.  

But I'm sure there will be a DNS problem.

Pre 2.0 versions of Samba had a further problem.  They would perform their
own caching which prevented them from running when you changed the
machine's IP (and maybe name).  I don't recall the details but this problem
and the solution were well documented, maybe in the tech support FAQ (?) at
http://www.samba.org
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