At 12:35 AM 1/12/2003 +0100, you wrote:
george wrote:In general, it should be the fully qualified domain name. If you don't have a domain name to use, you can even just 'invent' one and use it, eg. hostname.mydomain. However, in case you do set your hostname to just a name, without a domain, it won't do any harm.should this be the fully qualified domain name or just hostname? I have read two differing accounts on this
Thnks.. That last part of your note was what I was looking for too. I know that if you mess up your domain name Sendmail takes forever to come up. So just wanted to be sure about things before I made the change..
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Anand Buddhdev Sent: Sunday, 12 January 2003 9:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Domain Name Ted Gervais wrote:I feel a little sheepish in asking this question on the list but what the heck. Here it goes.Edit /etc/sysconfig/network, and set your hostname there. It will be set correctly at every bootup then. For completenesses sake, also edit /etc/hosts, and change localhost.localdomain to your new hostname.
I have RH8 running very well. Everything seems to be fine. But I notice that somehow I never set my hostname. Or at least, the hostname that keeps appearing is 'localhost'. Of course that appears in my /etc/hosts file.
I am sure everyone has a better host name than 'localhost' and was wondering about making a change here. If I do make a change though, will that screwup sendmail or the network etc..??
Also, how does one make a change to another hostname? And how is this done permanently.
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