From: Klaus Hartnegg (hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de)
Date: 01/07/93


From: hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg)
Subject: hostname, was: Getting talk, telnet, ftp to work
Date: 7 Jan 1993 17:46:58 GMT

pfr@psun2.hmi.de (Fritsch_Wolfgang) writes:

>when I run install.net it always quotes softland as the hostname
>(I think this is what is called "hostname"). In the README it says one should
>"define the hostname" but is does not say how to define it. Sorry, sorry for
>this question which might be primitive for someone knowledgeble...

Look into /etc/rc.local. There is a line
hostname softland
The rest is left as exercise :-)

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