host name

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Tue Dec 7 01:04:32 UTC 2004


On Tuesday 07 December 2004 00:41, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Sorry, not correct. There is no /etc/hostname file and using the
> hostname command does not change the hostname constantly.
>
> > Rus
>
> For a correct answer see Paul's reply. Following this pay attention to
> too adjust the /etc/hosts file. Its easier to use
> system-config-network[-tui] to change the hostname.
> Better don't change the hostname running X.

Rus's is the standard way, and RH used to do it that way. Then it decided to 
be different.


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