On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 07:01:43AM -0600, AuntieParticle scripsit:
> So that it will looks something like this:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> 127.0.0.1 nameiwant.localdomain nameiwant
>
> Then in etc/sysconfig/network I should *change*
>
> HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain
>
> to
>
> HOSTNAME=nameiwant.localdomain
>
> Is this correct?
This is not correct; you don't want to define 127.0.0.1 (which is a
special interface) more than once.
If all you want to do is create an alias for 'localhost', you can do it
like:
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain nameyouwant
and it will work, but if you want the machine's actual IP to be
recognized as being attached to the hostname, you have to add a line
like
192.168.0.16 nameyouwant
Where you replace the IP with whatever IP you have assigned to that
machine.
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