From: Michael Buchenrieder (mibu@scrum.greenie.muc.de)
Date: 12/31/69


From: mibu@scrum.greenie.muc.de (Michael Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Problems with xwindow
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1993 19:27:07 CEST

Richard.Wooden@f1116.n261.z1.ghawk.com (Richard Wooden) writes:

> I have a couple of questions.....
> 2) I have tried to use set hostname to rename the machine but it don't
> work. I have tried:
> sethostname (whatever)
> set hostname (whatever)
>
> after each time I would reboot using the shutdown -r now command. Am I
> doing something wrong?
>

Some of the commands that are coming with the SLS seem to be obsolet .
I encountered the same problem with SLS 1.01 ; the only solution
I found was using : echo my_hostname > /etc/host
and : echo my_domain > /etc/domain .
This should do it .
M.

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