From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: quick q Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 18:44:22 EST
root@slave.uwe.ac.uk (Operator (Phil/Dylan)) writes:
> In article <1993Jan7.034007.26946@sfu.ca>, wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong)
> writes:
> |> In article <1993Jan6.080443.10051@cbfsb.cb.att.com> wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com
> |> (William T. O Connell) writes:
> |> >In article <1993Jan6.071608.4248@wuecl.wustl.edu> ppc1@cec2.wustl.edu (Pe
> |> Pui Tak Chiu) writes:
>
> |> trying to ask is that (root@softland) thing. Well. Considering he
> |> didn't specify where, I could be given some leeway in interpretation here.
> |> But like, for that (root@softland) to be changed to (root@?????), I think
> |> he'd need to recompile the kernel under the ????? hostname, am I correct?
>
> wrong,....
Not entirely wrong. The *kernel* prints a banner along the lines of
Linux 0.99 (root@softland) ...
during the boot sequence. The version and user and host names are set when
the kernel is compiled; thus, mine currently says
Linux 0.99.pl2 (root@kf8nh) ...
because I installed the 0.99.[12] patches, changed the busmouse IRQ, swapped
SCSI support for QIC02 support, mangled the keyboard so the control key is
where us ancient folks expect it :-) and built a new boot disk, *after*
changing my hostname. (Earlier builds before I changed the hostname
continued to proclaim "(root@softland)".)
++Brandon