RE: Reduce DHCP Client Timeout & send hostname

2003-10-02 Thread Bill Anderson
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 01:15, Karasik, Vitaly wrote: > you need to add two strings to > > /etc/sysconfig/network : > > > DHCP_HOSTNAME="hostname" > > DHCPCARG="-t 10" IMO, when you select the option to manually set your hostanme in r-c-n it shou

Re: kill httpd hostname request by httpd.conf

2003-09-29 Thread Ed Wilts
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:43:53AM -0400, Joe Szilagyi wrote: > If I wanted to block an httpd request for a hostname via my httpd.conf file, > how could I block it by domain name? I.E., if someone pointed a hostname of > 'something.joe.com' at my IP address using DNS server

kill httpd hostname request by httpd.conf

2003-09-29 Thread Joe Szilagyi
Hello, If I wanted to block an httpd request for a hostname via my httpd.conf file, how could I block it by domain name? I.E., if someone pointed a hostname of 'something.joe.com' at my IP address using DNS servers beyond my control, for some reason, and I wanted to basically kill eve

RE: Reduce DHCP Client Timeout & send hostname

2003-09-29 Thread Karasik, Vitaly
>I am using RH 7.1 and the options you specified do not work, i.e., the timeout is >still 3 minutes... >Perhaps it will be best for me to use the ISC DHCP client... for pump you should change in your /etc/pump.conf file timeout & hostname parameters, see man

RE: Reduce DHCP Client Timeout & send hostname

2003-09-24 Thread Syed Ali
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Reduce DHCP Client Timeout & send hostname you need to add two strings to /etc/sysconfig/network : DHCP_HOSTNAME="hostname" DHCPCARG="-t 10" Regar

RE: Reduce DHCP Client Timeout & send hostname

2003-09-24 Thread Karasik, Vitaly
you need to add two strings to /etc/sysconfig/network : DHCP_HOSTNAME="hostname" DHCPCARG="-t 10" Regards, Vitaly Karasik, RHCE *** Information contained in this email message is intended

Send Hostname along with DHCP Request from client

2003-09-23 Thread Syed Ali
Does anyone know how to get a DHCP client to send it's hostname to the DHCP server when running RH 7.1 or RH 7.2? In RH 8.0 and up the /etc/dhclient.conf file option 'send fqdn.fqdn host.domain.com' can be used, but /etc/dhclient.conf is not supported in RH 7.1 or RH 7.2. (I

Re: sendmail hostname and reverse dns questions

2003-09-08 Thread Bret Hughes
On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 01:00, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > At 00:22 9/8/2003 -0500, you wrote: > >Shorewall is setup to only allow ports 53, 80, 25, 123, 443 > > FYI, on the Shorewall site, in the "contrib" directory, there is a very > simply Mini-HOWTO I wrote on using Portsentry in combination with

Re: sendmail hostname and reverse dns questions

2003-09-08 Thread Bret Hughes
quot;. No one has yet cared. > > This is also a very true point ! and the same holds for the "real" hostname > of the machine as it appears in your Received: headers. good tips thanks. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

RE: sendmail hostname and reverse dns questions

2003-09-08 Thread Bret Hughes
the headers of mail > > sent still show webserver1: > > > > Received: from mtaw6.prodigy.net (mtaw6.prodigy.net [64.164.98.56]) by > > webserver1.maindomain.com > > > > How can I change this other than resetting the hostname for the > > entire server?.

RE: sendmail hostname and reverse dns questions

2003-09-08 Thread Cowles, Steve
) by > webserver1.maindomain.com > > How can I change this other than resetting the hostname for the > entire server?. In addition to what Steve and Roldolfo have already said... I added the following to my .mc file to address your question. define(`confDOMAIN_NAME',`m

Re: sendmail hostname and reverse dns questions

2003-09-08 Thread Steve Phillips
r 100 domains run on about 30 IP addresses, and the reverse DNS on all 30 addresses is the same: "rita.otherdomain.com". No one has yet cared. This is also a very true point ! and the same holds for the "real" hostname of the machine as it appears in your Received: headers. -

Re: sendmail hostname and reverse dns questions

2003-09-07 Thread Rodolfo J. Paiz
At 00:22 9/8/2003 -0500, you wrote: Shorewall is setup to only allow ports 53, 80, 25, 123, 443 FYI, on the Shorewall site, in the "contrib" directory, there is a very simply Mini-HOWTO I wrote on using Portsentry in combination with Shorewall to dynamic, real-time blocking of Bad People [tm] who

sendmail hostname and reverse dns questions

2003-09-07 Thread Bret Hughes
net (mtaw6.prodigy.net [64.164.98.56]) by webserver1.maindomain.com How can I change this other than resetting the hostname for the entire server?. The fix may be related to my next question regarding reverse dns. I am about to mail the colo company where this server lives to request that t

Re: Change hostname [Re:RHLv1#8131]

2003-07-17 Thread Richard Bewley
Hi, You shouldn't have to reboot after changing it, just logout. Do the hostname new_hostname after changing it in the network file. Also, # just means to execute it, it doesn't mean you need to use service, you can ignore it. Re: Please pardon another dumb question, but Where d

Re: Change hostname [Re:RHLv1#8131]

2003-07-16 Thread Bill Tangren
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: *==}- Bill: Please pardon another dumb question, but Where do you "run" "# service network restart"? Does the "#" signify execute the "service" command at the root prompt? I tried "$ man service" yeild: "No manual entry for service" Of course, since I'm running a

Re: Change hostname [Re:RHLv1#8131]

2003-07-16 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
Subject : Re: Change hostname [Re:RHLv1#8131] *==}- Scott; Thank-you for asking this. I sometimes think it's the simple questions that most need answering, In this case, I think I should add this thread to my cribnotes file... *==}- Richard; Pardon me for asking a dumb question, but whe

Re: Change hostname

2003-07-15 Thread Jacques Lederer
Yes, but then you still get the old name in the prompt so long as you have not logged out... Jack -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

RE: Change hostname

2003-07-15 Thread Richard Bewley
Hi, # hostname new_hostname Thank you, Richard Bewley At 04:11 PM 7/15/2003 -0400, you wrote: After I changed /etc/syscofig/network I did service network restart and after it came back up hostname It still shows the old hostname. Do I need to do a complete shutdown? Scott Antonivich

Re: Change hostname

2003-07-15 Thread Bill Tangren
Jacques Lederer wrote: On RH 7.3, it's in /etc/sysconfig/network that you have to change the hostname. And then you still have to logout and log back in before it is visible... Hope this helps... Jack Don't need to log out. Simply run # service network restart Bill -- redhat-li

RE: Change hostname

2003-07-15 Thread Scott Antonivich
After I changed /etc/syscofig/network I did service network restart and after it came back up hostname It still shows the old hostname. Do I need to do a complete shutdown? Scott Antonivich General Manager Turnpike Technologies High Speed Internet Access for Home and Office Dialup, Web

Re: Change hostname

2003-07-15 Thread Jacques Lederer
On RH 7.3, it's in /etc/sysconfig/network that you have to change the hostname. And then you still have to logout and log back in before it is visible... Hope this helps... Jack -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

RE: Change hostname

2003-07-15 Thread Scott Antonivich
Thank you. I missed this Scott -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bob Buckley Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 3:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Change hostname Hostname is in the following file. /etc/syscofig/network -Original

RE: Change hostname

2003-07-15 Thread Bob Buckley
Hostname is in the following file. /etc/syscofig/network -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scott Antonivich Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 2:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Change hostname His is going to sound like a very simple question

Re: Change hostname

2003-07-15 Thread Richard Bewley
Hi, Be sure to change it in /etc/sysconfig/network as well. I would also set the hostname with hostname new_hostname also. Thank you, Richard Bewley At 03:57 PM 7/15/2003 -0400, you wrote: His is going to sound like a very simple question...so I apologize to those who know RH backwards and

Change hostname

2003-07-15 Thread Scott Antonivich
His is going to sound like a very simple question...so I apologize to those who know RH backwards and forwards. I have a standard RH9 install. It is running web,dns,mysql and postfix. During the installation process it asked for the hostname of the computer. I now want to change it. Where should

Re: Can ping by hostname, can't browse -- huh??

2003-05-30 Thread Robert
So, pinging hostnames and ip's works.. what about ssh or telnet or ftp? Other apps from the command line? Other GUI apps? is it ONLY the browser that is having the hostname problems? That sounds extremely odd I would suggest that maybe your browser has some sort of proxy configure

Re: Can ping by hostname, can't browse -- huh??

2003-05-30 Thread Phil Savoie
On Thursday 29 May 2003 20:05, Michelle Lowman wrote: > At 04:25 PM 5/29/2003 -0700, you wrote: > >This doesn't sound like a dns issue from what I have read in the posts. > >Can you browse by IP? A lot of people will test ping by both IP and > >name, but I have seen a lot of good techs not do the

Re: Can ping by hostname, can't browse -- huh??

2003-05-30 Thread Michelle Lowman
At 04:25 PM 5/29/2003 -0700, you wrote: This doesn't sound like a dns issue from what I have read in the posts. Can you browse by IP? A lot of people will test ping by both IP and name, but I have seen a lot of good techs not do the same with the browser. Did you install with the default firewall

Re: Can ping by hostname, can't browse -- huh??

2003-05-30 Thread John Hough
This doesn't sound like a dns issue from what I have read in the posts. Can you browse by IP? A lot of people will test ping by both IP and name, but I have seen a lot of good techs not do the same with the browser. Did you install with the default firewall settings? Did you make any changes to

Re: Can ping by hostname, can't browse -- huh??

2003-05-30 Thread Eric Chevalier
Michelle, Michelle Lowman wrote: I do have the same DNS settings for the RH box, the Windows box, and the router, and I have changed both RH and Windows back to getting dynamic IP's. THAT part is working, including getting the right DNS information. However, name lookups only work with ping an

Re: Can ping by hostname, can't browse -- huh??

2003-05-30 Thread Eric Chevalier
Michelle: You might also want to try changing the keyword "server" to "nameserver". The man page for resolv.conf specifies "nameserver" as the keyword that defines the IP addresses of the name servers that your system should query. I don't see anything that suggests "server" is an acceptable a

Re: Can ping by hostname, can't browse -- huh??

2003-05-30 Thread Ben Russo
If you have your RedHat box configured the way you think it should be, try to ping the default gateway (should be the Linksys Router?) Try pinging the DNS servers that you have listed in your /etc/resolv.conf by IP address. If you can ping a hostname, like "ping www.swirly.com" Try do

Re: Can ping by hostname, can't browse -- huh??

2003-05-30 Thread Michelle Lowman
At 04:46 PM 5/29/2003 -0500, you wrote: Michelle: [Apologies for sending this message in HTML format!] When you reconfigured your RH box to use static a static IP address, did you ALSO configure at least one name server address in the network settings, as well? It sounds like your LinkSys rou

Re: Can ping by hostname, can't browse -- huh??

2003-05-30 Thread Robert
onger able to browse or get email, so I > > tried to change it back. I enabled DHCP on the router, reset > > everything, including making sure that eth0 gets its IP from the DHCP > > server. > > > > So now the router won't route. I can ping hosts on the internet by

Re: Can ping by hostname, can't browse -- huh??

2003-05-30 Thread Eric Chevalier
ng, including making sure that eth0 gets its IP from the DHCP server. So now the router won't route. I can ping hosts on the internet by IP and by hostname, but I can only browse by IP (which is not exactly practical). I tried to connect directly to the cable modem, taking the router out of

Re: Can ping by hostname, can't browse -- huh??

2003-05-30 Thread Eric Chevalier
HCP server. So now the router won't route. I can ping hosts on the internet by IP and by hostname, but I can only browse by IP (which is not exactly practical). I tried to connect directly to the cable modem, taking the router out of the loop, and I can still ping by IP or hostname, but

Re: Can ping by hostname, can't browse -- huh??

2003-05-30 Thread Michelle Lowman
ls me that it can't resolve the hostname, livia. However, the /etc/hosts file DOES contain 127.0.0.1livialocalhost.localdomainlocalhost and has contained that line throughout this entire mess. A swirly is always amusing (as long as I am not the one receiving it. In your /etc/resol

Re: Can ping by hostname, can't browse -- huh??

2003-05-30 Thread Ben Russo
no longer able to browse or get email, so I tried to change it back. I enabled DHCP on the router, reset everything, including making sure that eth0 gets its IP from the DHCP server. So now the router won't route. I can ping hosts on the internet by IP and by hostname, but I can only brow

Can ping by hostname, can't browse -- huh??

2003-05-30 Thread Michelle Lowman
wse or get email, so I tried to change it back. I enabled DHCP on the router, reset everything, including making sure that eth0 gets its IP from the DHCP server. So now the router won't route. I can ping hosts on the internet by IP and by hostname, but I can only browse by IP (which is not ex

Re: Setting host or hostname

2003-03-21 Thread Jason Riedel
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 11:30 PM Subject: Setting host or hostname > trying to convince my RH8 box to talk to my dsl modem. Keep seeing hostname > set as "localhost" on boot up, which is not good, as my ISP is looking for a > specific re

RE: Setting host or hostname

2003-03-21 Thread santosh kumar
You have to edit /etc/sysconfig/networks & /etc/hosts & restart ... Regds, santosh -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of knesbitt Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 12:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Setting host or hostname t

Setting host or hostname

2003-03-21 Thread knesbitt
trying to convince my RH8 box to talk to my dsl modem. Keep seeing hostname set as "localhost" on boot up, which is not good, as my ISP is looking for a specific registered hostname (used with my old win2K machine) which works just fine on that machine. How do I set the host or hostnam

Re: How to set hostname so it's not dhcppc?

2002-11-20 Thread João Pedro
You can also use the Gui - Network Device Control - under System Tools, wich alows you to that and much more with a very userfriendly grafic interface ! Binyon Steve Contr Det 4 AFC2TIG/ASRCC wrote: I believe in the /etc/sysconfig/network file you can add the line: HOSTNAME="myhostname&qu

RE: How to set hostname so it's not dhcppc?

2002-11-19 Thread Binyon Steve Contr Det 4 AFC2TIG/ASRCC
I believe in the /etc/sysconfig/network file you can add the line: HOSTNAME="myhostname" and it will do what you wish. (you need to do a 'service network restart' if you wish to make it happen asap). HTH smbinyon -Original Message- From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:[EM

Re: How to set hostname so it's not dhcppc?

2002-11-15 Thread Yoink!
ng each time it starts. How can I set my > notebook's hostname to be say, "localhost" or "dell" or something and > STAY that way? I've tried "hostname localhost" and it sets it for that > session but then gets reset. Ugh. I "grep 'hostn

How to set hostname so it's not dhcppc?

2002-11-15 Thread Daevid Vincent
Just installed RH8 on my notebook which uses DHCP to get on my LAN/internet. This in turn keeps asigning my notebook name to be "dhcppc6" -- which aside from being asthetically unappealing, also causes X/Gnome to give a warning each time it starts. How can I set my notebook's hos

Re: Where is HOSTNAME set?

2002-11-08 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 04:28:42PM +0800, Gregory Hosler wrote: > /etc/sysconfig/network > > which is read when you bring up your network (or anything that reads > /etc/sysconfig/network) Yup, that's where the parameters are set, but I was after where the hostname is actual

RE: Where is HOSTNAME set?

2002-11-08 Thread Gregory Hosler
and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts for both home and > work. Further, I've added a script to the init scripts, which evaluates said > variable and sets the correct symlinks to the files I mentioned. > > This works beautifully for IP address, gateway and DNS settings, however, >

Where is HOSTNAME set?

2002-11-08 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
ntioned. This works beautifully for IP address, gateway and DNS settings, however, for some reason, the HOSTNAME doesn't get set properly (i.e. it stays on the "old" value). To me, it looks as if HOSTNAME is set "too early", i.e. before my script runs and sets the correct symlinks.

Re: RH8.0: Hostname changes to x1-6-00-08-0e-d5-de-77 on every boot

2002-11-04 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03-Nov-2002/17:27 -0700, Devin Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Just installed RH 8.0. Every time I boot my hostname changes from >localhost.localdomain to x1-6-00-08-0e-d5-de-77. During boot the line >&#

Re: RH8.0: Hostname changes to x1-6-00-08-0e-d5-de-77 on every boot

2002-11-04 Thread Lars Friberg
omain localhost Brgds Devin Henderson wrote: Just installed RH 8.0. Every time I boot my hostname changes from localhost.localdomain to x1-6-00-08-0e-d5-de-77. During boot the line 'Setting hostname localhost.localdomains [OK]' appears but when the OS is finally booted the hostname is

Re: RH8.0: Hostname changes to x1-6-00-08-0e-d5-de-77 on every boot

2002-11-03 Thread Devin Henderson
Yoink! wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Devin Henderson wrote: Blaine Armsterd wrote: Try setting a real hostname and see if DHCP still overrides it. how do I set a real hostname? Thanks, Blaine hostname is a command, or vi /etc/sysconfig/network and set HOSTNAME=yourhostname I have tried

Re: RH8.0: Hostname changes to x1-6-00-08-0e-d5-de-77 on every boot

2002-11-03 Thread Yoink!
On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Devin Henderson wrote: > Blaine Armsterd wrote: >> Try setting a real hostname and see if DHCP still overrides it. > > how do I set a real hostname? Thanks, Blaine hostname is a command, or vi /etc/sysconfig/network and set HOSTNAME=yourhostname -- \ \/ / _

Re: RH8.0: Hostname changes to x1-6-00-08-0e-d5-de-77 on every boot

2002-11-03 Thread Devin Henderson
Blaine Armsterd wrote: Try setting a real hostname and see if DHCP still overrides it. how do I set a real hostname? Thanks, Blaine -- Devin [EMAIL PROTECTED] remove NOSPAM to email me -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https

Re: RH8.0: Hostname changes to x1-6-00-08-0e-d5-de-77 on every boot

2002-11-03 Thread Blaine Armsterd
On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Devin Henderson wrote: > Just installed RH 8.0. Every time I boot my hostname changes from > localhost.localdomain to x1-6-00-08-0e-d5-de-77. During boot the line > 'Setting hostname localhost.localdomains [OK]' appears but when the OS > is finally booted

RH8.0: Hostname changes to x1-6-00-08-0e-d5-de-77 on every boot

2002-11-03 Thread Devin Henderson
Just installed RH 8.0. Every time I boot my hostname changes from localhost.localdomain to x1-6-00-08-0e-d5-de-77. During boot the line 'Setting hostname localhost.localdomains [OK]' appears but when the OS is finally booted the hostname is wrong again. I checked the files in /

Re: hostname

2002-10-22 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Will Mendez wrote: > Is there any other files that I need to edit instead of using the > deafult loopback address. Edit /etc/hosts and change "localhost.localdomain" to your real hostname, but make absolutely sure that you leave "localhost" as

Re: hostname

2002-10-22 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22-Oct-2002/14:41 -0400, Will Mendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am able to change my hostname by editing the /etc/sysconfig/network file. >but my application which uses a license server does not want to recognize the >new

hostname

2002-10-22 Thread Will Mendez
I am able to change my hostname by editing the /etc/sysconfig/network file. but my application which uses a license server does not want to recognize the new hostname. If I change my hostname back to 127.0.0.1 the license server works correctly. Is there any other files that I need to edit

Re: Change hostname and IP

2002-09-12 Thread Bret Hughes
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 19:22, Edward Dekkers wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 07:42, Hong Tian wrote: > > > What is the better way to change the hostname and IP address on Red Hat > > > Linux 7.3? > > > -Thanks. > > > > > > > try neat > >

Re: Change hostname and IP

2002-09-12 Thread Edward Dekkers
> On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 07:42, Hong Tian wrote: > > What is the better way to change the hostname and IP address on Red Hat > > Linux 7.3? > > -Thanks. > > > > try neat > > Bret Hey Bret - is 'neat' standard on RH 7.3? With 7.2 I had to '

RE: Change hostname and IP

2002-09-12 Thread Trevor
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Langa Kentane >Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 6:46 AM >To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' .Subject: RE: Change hostname and IP >Then /etc/init.d/network restart Or simply type &qu

RE: Change hostname and IP

2002-09-12 Thread Langa Kentane
cd /etc/sysconfic/network-script/ Edit the file ifcfg-ethx And change the values. Then /etc/init.d/network restart -Original Message- From: Hong Tian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 2:42 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Change hostname and IP

Re: Change hostname and IP

2002-09-12 Thread achana
Hong Tian wrote: > What is the better way to change the hostname and IP address on Red Hat > Linux 7.3? > -Thanks. You might like to look at following files /etc/HOSTNAME /etc/sysconfig/network /etc/hosts Bounce box. Hope that helps. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mail

Re: Change hostname and IP

2002-09-12 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 08:42:10AM -0400, Hong Tian wrote: > > What is the better way to change the hostname and IP address on Red Hat > Linux 7.3? If you want a GUI, use neat. If you want a TUI, edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, /etc/hosts and /etc/sysconfig/network, the

Re: Change hostname and IP

2002-09-12 Thread Bret Hughes
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 07:42, Hong Tian wrote: > What is the better way to change the hostname and IP address on Red Hat > Linux 7.3? > -Thanks. > try neat Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mail

Re: Change hostname and IP

2002-09-12 Thread linux power
 For hostname edit rc.sysconfig and /etc/hosts. I'am sure what u mean about the ip-address. But for your Lan card u set in /etc/hosts and apply the local ip-address to your lan card by typing this /sbin/ifconfig 192.168.0.1 up The ip 192.168.0.1 ia a class c private network.   Hong Tian &l

Change hostname and IP

2002-09-12 Thread Hong Tian
What is the better way to change the hostname and IP address on Red Hat Linux 7.3? -Thanks. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: Hostname changes by itself

2002-08-22 Thread Krishna
I was trying to change the host name of my linux machine. I did so by > > editing the file /etc/sysconfig/network. If i reboot the system, it works > > fine recognizing the new hostname. However if i reboot the system again, > > it goes back to its old hostname. > > pls send

Re: Hostname changes by itself

2002-08-21 Thread ramakrishna
hi, * rahul b jain cs student ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I was trying to change the host name of my linux machine. I did so by > editing the file /etc/sysconfig/network. If i reboot the system, it works > fine recognizing the new hostname. However if i reboot the system again, >

Hostname changes by itself

2002-08-21 Thread rahul b jain cs student
Hi, I was trying to change the host name of my linux machine. I did so by editing the file /etc/sysconfig/network. If i reboot the system, it works fine recognizing the new hostname. However if i reboot the system again, it goes back to its old hostname. Could anyone tell me, what is the

Re: dynamic and static IP address (was hostname)

2002-07-13 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 13-Jul-2002/10:26 -0400, Edward Marczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 7/12/02 12:40 AM, "Kevin Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:58:26 -0400, Tony wrote: >> >>> If he has has access to an external SMTP server that will

Re: dynamic and static IP address (was hostname)

2002-07-13 Thread Edward Marczak
On 7/12/02 12:40 AM, "Kevin Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:58:26 -0400, Tony wrote: > >> If he has has access to an external SMTP server that will relay for >> authenticated connections, he can setup sendmail as an SMTP auth client. >> The Sendmail web site

Re: dynamic and static IP address (was hostname)

2002-07-12 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12-Jul-2002/11:40 +0700, Kevin Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:58:26 -0400, Tony wrote: > >>If he has has access to an external SMTP server that will relay for >>authenticated connections, he can setup sendmail as an SMTP a

Re: dynamic and static IP address (was hostname)

2002-07-11 Thread Kevin Myers
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:58:26 -0400, Tony wrote: >If he has has access to an external SMTP server that will relay for >authenticated connections, he can setup sendmail as an SMTP auth client. >The Sendmail web site has details. Auth client. Does that mean it can act as

Re: dynamic and static IP address (was hostname)

2002-07-11 Thread Chris Harris
Then by messing around with hostname, domainname, etc. commands I think I have it right now. Funny thing was that I got email to all other locations working and still couldn't post to this list. It seems that this list accepts or rejects postings based on the name part of the "From:&

Re: dynamic and static IP address (was hostname)

2002-07-11 Thread Chris Harris
Then by messing around with hostname, domainname, etc. commands I think I have it right now. Lets see if this makes it to the list :-) Chris ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: dynamic and static IP address (was hostname)

2002-07-11 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11-Jul-2002/12:27 -0400, Edward Marczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Could be a coincidence in timingperhaps. You mention pop3 machines. >Those are also smtp forwarders? You say you can send mail to them, but POP >doesn't send mail, that's why

Re: dynamic and static IP address (was hostname)

2002-07-11 Thread Edward Marczak
On 7/9/02 8:09 AM, "Chris Harris (CW)" [EMAIL PROTECTED] pressed the keys forming the message: > Sorry I've been busy getting married this weekend, so as you can imagine > my mind has been on other things. ...and you're back posting on this list already? Geez. Honeymoon's over, huh? > I'll ha

RE: dynamic and static IP address (was hostname)

2002-07-09 Thread Chris Harris (CW)
EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: dynamic and static IP address (was hostname) > > > On 7/8/02 12:09 AM, "Kevin Myers" [EMAIL PROTECTED] pressed the > keys forming the > message: > > > I must admit that I assumed the original sender wasn't > getting any '

Re: dynamic and static IP address (was hostname)

2002-07-08 Thread Edward Marczak
On 7/8/02 12:09 AM, "Kevin Myers" [EMAIL PROTECTED] pressed the keys forming the message: > I must admit that I assumed the original sender wasn't getting any 'Relaying > denied' type messages sent back to him. If this is the case, then, as you > say, he will have to use a server that he is autho

Re: dynamic and static IP address (was hostname)

2002-07-07 Thread Kevin Myers
On Sat, 06 Jul 2002 16:59:09 -0400, Edward wrote: >Actually, there is a little magic in sending email. It's called >authentication. He's probably set to use his own ISP's mail server. >But when he's on his network, the ISP's mail server is rejecting the >mail (won't relay). He may just need

Re: hostname

2002-07-07 Thread Juan L. Pastor
Hi, On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 23:53, Jay Daniels wrote: > > You have a structure different from: > > > > IP_address FQDNalias1 alias2 > > Correct > > IP_address hostname FQDN Have you tried the hostname, hostname --fqdn, domainname and dnsdomainname c

RE: How to set hostname ?

2002-07-06 Thread Bruce Embrey
I believe if you edit /etc/sysconfig/network it will solve your problem during botup setting hostname is read from this file. Well at least it work for me. Bruce -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bobby Treaster Sent: Saturday, July 06

Re: How to set hostname ?

2002-07-06 Thread Bobby Treaster
I use the following command hostname newnamehere placeing the name of the new hostname you would like in the place labeled newnamehere this should work for it works for me I f not there might be some other problem that is causeing it to happen 7/6/2002 3:46:57 PM, Bill Johnson <[EM

Re: How to set hostname ?

2002-07-06 Thread Price Technology
I had the same problem with my Dell Laptop. My ISDN router was assigning (or my laptop was homesteading) a hostname just like the ones you're getting. I was told everything from "check /this/file/here" (fill in the blank) to "it must be your router". My rout

Re: dynamic and static IP address (was hostname)

2002-07-06 Thread Edward Marczak
Kevin Myers wrote: > Hi! Did you sort this out? > > I would look in the log files for possible reasons why the mail didn't get > sent. There's no particular magic in sending emails: what happens if you > traceroute to an external server while on the network? If you've got a > route, can you tel

Re: How to set hostname ?

2002-07-06 Thread Bill Johnson
Hi. I posted this message a while back, but never saw whether it made it to the list or not. If it was answered, forgive me for missing it. I really would like to solve my hostname problem. Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 08:39:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PRO

Re: dynamic and static IP address (was hostname)

2002-07-06 Thread Kevin Myers
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 08:48:29 -0400, Chris wrote: >Thanks to everyone who replied to my previous query with the subject >"hostname". > >I now have another query, which I think is related. I use my laptop both on a >network, with a fixed IP address at work, and at home a

Re: hostname

2002-07-05 Thread daniel
# hostname then edit /etc/sysconfig/network and change the hostname entry to the new name restart _ daniel a. g. quinn starving programmer giving it up would mean... it would mean that all along they'd been wrong. it would mean that they'd never

dynamic and static IP address (was hostname)

2002-07-05 Thread Chris Harris
Thanks to everyone who replied to my previous query with the subject "hostname". I now have another query, which I think is related. I use my laptop both on a network, with a fixed IP address at work, and at home and on the move via dial-up using dynamically assigned IP address

hostname

2002-07-05 Thread Chris Harris
Can somebody help me with setting the hostname on my laptop workstation installation running RH7.3. Currently my email headers have the something like "received: from localhost.localdomain" and I would like that to be something a bit more meaningful. What do I have to setup? >Fr

Re: hostname

2002-07-04 Thread Jay Daniels
ul.:|:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:|:.de recta non tolerandum sunt > The "hosts" file was superceded by DNS. The only reason you would need a FQDN in the hosts file at all is for the gateway machine to reference the box by the FQDN without DNS or some other machine on the network to reference the box

Re: hostname

2002-07-04 Thread Rob Saul
On Wednesday 03 July 2002 10:48, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03-Jul-2002/20:53 -0400, Jay Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 19:57, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > >> On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 07:27:46PM -0400, Jay Daniels wrote

RE: hostname

2002-07-04 Thread Chris Harris (CW)
I now have another query, which I think is related. I use my laptop both on a network, with a fixed IP address at work, and at home and on the move via dial-up using dynamically assigned IP addresses. I have problems with this; When I'm on the network, as now, I can't seem to send emails outside

Re: hostname

2002-07-03 Thread Anthony E. Greene
ucture of the /etc/hosts backward from any unix book >> > I have ever read? >> >> You have a structure different from: >> >> IP_address FQDNalias1 alias2 >> >> Emmanuel >> >> >> > >Correct > >IP_address hostn

Re: hostname

2002-07-03 Thread Jay Daniels
> IP_addressFQDNalias1 alias2 > > Emmanuel > > > Correct IP_address hostname FQDN jay ___ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: hostname

2002-07-03 Thread Anthony E. Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03-Jul-2002/19:27 -0400, Jay Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Then why is the structure of the /etc/hosts backward from any unix book >I have ever read? I don't know. - -- Anthony E. Greene OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/

Re: hostname

2002-07-03 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 07:27:46PM -0400, Jay Daniels wrote: > > Then why is the structure of the /etc/hosts backward from any unix book > I have ever read? You have a structure different from: IP_address FQDNalias1 alias2 Emmanuel ___ R

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