Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > Here is a dumb question I guess, but I have a host name that I want to > the localhost to but am not sure of all of the files that need to be > changed? > > I do think that the /etc/hosts shold be changed but are there others as > well? Robert's given you some good ideas. The hostname may have got into other files in /etc (or potentially, in a hidden file in your home directory). We can't tell what you're running or how it's configured. You may want to run a # cd /etc ; grep -r oldhostname and maybe a $ cd ; shopt -s dotglob ; grep -r oldhostname * (the shopt means that the * matches hidden files and folders as well). Under certain circumstances, you may want to leave the old hostname as an alias to the new one in /etc/hosts. Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail address: james | Remember, half-measures can be very effective if @westexe.demon.co.uk | all you deal with are half-wits.
