On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 11:06, John Courie II wrote: > 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. > The manuals to RH9 are also very useful. There might be some changes in FC2, but the give a great introduction. For example, see: https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/ref-guide/
