On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am So, den 21.11.2004 schrieb Satish Balay um 17:18: > > > > How and where is hostname set and how does one alter it ? > > > > - add the name to /etc/sysconfig/network > > HOSTNAME=foobar > > > > - add the ip-addresss map to /etc/hosts > > 127.0.0.1 foobar > > Attention! This advice can be understood misleading and wrongly > following can cause severe network problems. As the comment in the > /etc/hosts file itself very clearly says: > > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs > # that require network functionality will fail. > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost I guess i should have been more clear - I meant 'add the extra line'. The following is valid: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 127.0.0.1 foobar Satish
