Re: Changing "localhost.localdomain"

[Bret Hughes <bhughes elevating com>]

On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 11:39, Manuel Camacho wrote:
> I manually changed /etc/sysconfig/network.
> 
> Now I log and I have "MyComputer" as hostname.
> 
> BUT, when I try to compile, compilations generate an error message (but 
> they end successfully):
> 
> "Could not canonicalize hostname: MyComputer"
> 
> lpd is giving hostname errors, too.
> 
> I tried issuing the hostname command, but I got the same results.
> 
> Any ideas?

You need to add MyComputer to your /etc/hosts file.  The norm is to use
the primary network interface but I would guess that giving it an
address of 127.0.0.1 would work too.

Bret