On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:53:28PM +, Tendril wrote:
> The distro I have was installed for me but I would like to change it's name.
>
> ie. my computer is called achilles and I would like to change it to
> something else. I would look in the help files, but I don't know what
> this process i
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 12:25:34 +, Tendril wrote:
>
> Now I get all the same files as before come up except with ~ at the end.
> What does the ~ mean? I tried to edit these files but was informed that the
> 'buffer is read only'
>
If you look at the man page for the editor you were using, you'
> just for the record, the command
>
> $ grep -rsl achilles /etc
>
> will do the same, but a huge lot more efficient (being just 1 process
> instead of 1 for every file in /etc)
> -r is of course recursive
> -s surpresses error messages (lilo.conf for example is not be readable by
> normal users)
>
> just for the record, the command
>
> $ grep -rsl achilles /etc
>
> will do the same, but a huge lot more efficient (being just 1 process
> instead of 1 for every file in /etc)
> -r is of course recursive
> -s surpresses error messages (lilo.conf for example is not be readable by
> normal users)
>
Pigeon verraste ons met de boodschap:
> I don't know if there
> exists a list somewhere of all the config files that your machine name might
> find its way into. It might be useful to do something like:
>
> for x in `find /etc -name '*'`; do grep achilles $x > /dev/null 2>&1 && ech=
> o $x; done
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:53:04PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:53:28PM +, Tendril wrote:
> > ie. my computer is called achilles and I would like to change it to
> > something else. I would look in the help files, but I don't know what
> > this process is called
Thanks Emma
I have edited these files and my hostname has changed :)
T
I did this recently... I changed the following files:
/etc/hosts
/etc/hostname
/etc/postfix/main.cf # obviously only if you're using postfix
emma
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On 2004-01-07, Tendril <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The distro I have was installed for me but I would like to change it's name.
>
> ie. my computer is called achilles and I would like to change it to
> something else. I would look in the help files, but I don't know what
> this process is called
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 18:53, Tendril wrote:
> The distro I have was installed for me but I would like to change it's name.
>
> ie. my computer is called achilles and I would like to change it to
> something else. I would look in the help files, but I don't know what
> this process is called.
>
On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 18:53, Tendril wrote:
> The distro I have was installed for me but I would like to change it's name.
>
> ie. my computer is called achilles and I would like to change it to
> something else. I would look in the help files, but I don't know what
> this process is called.
>
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:53:28PM +, Tendril wrote:
> ie. my computer is called achilles and I would like to change it to
> something else. I would look in the help files, but I don't know what
> this process is called.
See the manpage for hostname: `man hostname'
It has a little more inf
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:53:28PM +, Tendril wrote:
> ie. my computer is called achilles and I would like to change it to
> something else. I would look in the help files, but I don't know what
> this process is called.
I did this recently... I changed the following files:
/etc/host
The distro I have was installed for me but I would like to change it's name.
ie. my computer is called achilles and I would like to change it to
something else. I would look in the help files, but I don't know what
this process is called.
Many thanks
Tendril
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