-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 23 November 2002 1:28 pm, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > > Can I update these files to the new name? I am most worried about the > exim and ssh(d) configuration? Exim for obvious reasons, and ssh for > fear of being locked out of remote systems (I use key pair > authentication and don't want to get on a bus to reset public keys.)
You need to understand the consequences of your change on exim in /etc/exim/exim.conf - in particular what qualified domain names you expect to receive mail on. If this is not changing, I think you are probably OK (although you just might have to change things like receiver_unqualified_hosts= and local_domains= ) I this ssh will be fine (I have transported some of my key pairs to different machines and they still work). Are you running a nameserver (such as bind) then you will have to change that to reflect your change. > > If I had entered a domain-name at setup time, would foo.domain just > be appended to the entry in /etc/hosts or would other configuration > have taken place? I compare to an OpenBSD box that is already setup > correctley wrt name+domain. That system uses an entry in /etc/hosts > and has the file /etc/myname. (It's apples and oranges, I know) > > I want to be able to use short names as well. Is it possible to do > this with entries in /etc/hosts like: > > 192.168.1.4 box1.foo.domain box1 yes > > If so, would all regular network applications parse the entire entry > to find both names? (expressed from users point of view) > Don't know - -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9361guFHxcV2FFoIRAtObAJ0c5x9MqAXhllI7L0AgQxFdQVMMgACfba+c SqTL/N4TjgbvYBT+y3Zc/rw= =Q3JD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
