On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Craig White wrote: > On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 12:44 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Craig White wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 12:08 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > > > /etc/hosts contains only > > > > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs > > > > # that require network functionality will fail. > > > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > > > > > > > > I that infer my machine has not been getting its hostname through DNS. > > > > > > > > Is there a way to ask the system where it did get the hostname? > > > ---- > > > cat /etc/sysconfig/network > > > > That gives me > > NETWORKING=yes > > HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain > > which to me is not informative. > > > > > you can edit there if you wish - probably have to '/sbin/service network > > > restart' to get it to take though. > > > > > > My guess is that you named this machine when you did the original > > > install. > > > > Assuming I did so (it was orange and it tasted like orange juice), > > where would that information be stored? > ---- > informative is a relative thing - one must also be able to comprehend > what is meant by the answer. > > In this case, your computer thinks its' name is 'localhost.localdomain' Actually my computer thinks its name is 'stmike'. That is what hostname tells me. If I give hostname arguments, it still gives me 'stmike'. > of course, doing it this way, it is only temporarily setting it. To > permanently set it, probably best to edit /etc/sysconfig/network. > > If you had permanently set a different hostname at install time, it > would have shown up there. It didn't show up there. I did a find from / to fgrep for stmike. Except for files in /home/hennebry I got /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-eth0.leases /var/log/messages /var/log/secure /var/log/maillog /var/log/cups/error_log /var/log/gdm/:0.log /var/log/gdm/:0.log.1 /var/log/gdm/:0.log.2 /var/log/gdm/:0.log.3 /var/log/cron /var/log/boot.log /var/log/Xorg.0.log /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old /var/spool/mail/root /etc/printcap /root/.xauthTq8ojp /root/.bash_history /root/.xauthpQFsSW None of these seem like likely prospects. Even running as root, I did get several permission denied messages. -- Mike hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "I AM DEATH, NOT TAXES. *I* ONLY TURN UP ONCE." -- Death
