Re: Changing the domain

1997-12-29 Thread Nils Rennebarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 21 Dec 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > Maybe a /etc/domain is there for NIS/YP? Exactly. And to change the domainname, you need to change: /etc/resolv.conf /etc/hosts The latter should contain at the ip address of each of the hosts interfaces. Nils

Re: Changing the domain

1997-12-20 Thread Orn E. Hansen
George Bonser writes: > > I assumed that file was created during the install process when it asked > the hostname and domain. > Probably created for convenience, in line with the /etc/hostname. The /etc/hostname file has no purpose but to store the hostname to be then read by the 'hostname'

Re: Changing the domain

1997-12-20 Thread Peter Prohaska
That is just the way I have done it, too. But someone - I think it was George - wrote that he has set it in /etc/domain. So I was wondering why that file is missing on my host. peter. --- On Sat, 20 Dec 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > Peter Prohaska writes: > > > > I have no /etc/domain file on

Re: Changing the domain

1997-12-20 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Peter Prohaska writes: > > I have no /etc/domain file on my system... > could you please search for the package which installed the file? > Or did you create it by hand? There is a file /etc/resolv.conf, and it has a "domain" and "search" part, it should contain your domain name, i.e. the tl

Re: Changing the domain

1997-12-20 Thread Peter Prohaska
I have no /etc/domain file on my system... could you please search for the package which installed the file? Or did you create it by hand? peter. --- On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, George Bonser wrote: > > Ignore that last comment, that was for something else entirely. > > My system has a file ... /etc