On Thursday 2008 November 20 06:29, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > Why that must be, I mean when changing the hostname with hostname command, > we also sometimes need to do the same with /etc/hosts else something weird > would happen. Does the command hostname writes somewhere else other than > /etc/hosts?
The hostname command just updates what the kernel thinks the hostname is. It doesn't modify any file. (If you want the change to be "permanent", update /etc/hostname; Debian does 'hostname "$(cat /etc/hostname)"' during the boot process.) A running instance of Debian only has one of these at a time. The kernel's hostname string is a very local identifier. The FQDN is a more complicated beast, dependent on your NSS settings and the resources they point to, and a single running Debian instance might have many of them. The FQDN is supposed to be a global identifier for the system and, in general, neither the system itself or the system's administrator has the ability or permissions to change it. But for most people, updating /etc/hosts will make their machine report the FQDN they expect. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/
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