On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 11:31:57PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote: | Hello! | | I was wondering if it is possible to embed my email address into | homegrown kernels. My current kernel greets me with | | | Linux version 2.2.19pre6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) .... | | | but I would much prefer something like | | | Linux version 2.2.19pre6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) .... | |
I don't think it is hard-coded into the kernel. I believe it is specified in a file in /etc (that gets read on boot). I know that if you change the name of localhost in /etc/hosts and reboot your greeting will show the new host name. BTW, Is there a way to "reset" the hostname without rebooting? I had a problem with this a while back -- I called my machine by one name, but the DNS server called it by another. The result was that no one but my own machine could browse my web pages under user's home directories. (apache did some rerouting to the hostname the kernel thought it was, but then other machines couldn't lookup the name) Kind of fun, huh? ;-) -D
