John Courie II wrote:
Hi and welcome to the wonderful (but sometimes crabby) world of Linux a la Fedora Core 2!Hey all, My name is john and I am brand new to linux. I can count the hours booted into linux in my fingers, but I got sold on the F/OSS ideal and I am going to make this work.
I installed FC2 last night and when it resolves my hostname through eth0 it is some long ass nonsense that it gets dynamiclly from COMCAST.
I want to change that to be a name I pick
I looked through the BASH manual and through a few orielly books on tcpip, I googled and looked through some n00b forums, no luck...
How do I configure my system to have a custom name that shows up on the prompt while still accepting and using the dynamic IP sent from comcast?
I understand that there are considerably more critical issues that need to be adressed but I suspect that this question is trivial to many of you and can be anwsered easily.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
Try editing the following files:
/etc/sysconfig/network /etc/hosts
Make sure that you set the host name the same in both! You may need to reboot (gasp!) after making the changes to avoid problems.
-- Mitch Wiedemann mc^2 Computer Consulting mc2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.lightlink.com/mc2
