On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Philip Wyett wrote: > On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 05:43, Krikket wrote: > > 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. 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
