Steve Witt wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, [utf-8] José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: > >> Hello. >> How do I change the fqdn of a computer ? >> No matter what I do, hostname -f keeps telling >> "localhost.localdomain", other >> computers with the same configuration give the right hostname. >> Thank you. >> -- > > > The hostname of the computer is contained in '/etc/hosts'. You can > change it there.
I think you mean /etc/hostname But when you change it, you'll need to be sure to add the new hostname to /etc/hosts with the IP address of 127.0.0.1 -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures.
