From: debruijn@cs.utwente.nl (Steef S.G. de Bruijn) Subject: Re: [HELP] Problems with Slackware Linux and 'hostname' Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1993 08:26:19 GMT
In article <1993Sep28.182623.10071@bnr.ca>, Ian Clysdale <ac559@freenet.carleton.ca> writes:
|> Recently I set up Slackware Linux running on my PC, and have it
|> pretty much running well right now, except for one small problem --
|> it refuses to define my hostname; it came defined as 'darkstar' in
|> the distribution that I got, and refuses to change.
|> I did a little reading, and found out that apparently the command
|> "hostname -S elanon" should change the name of my system to "elanon",
|> but whenever I do that, it responds with "unknown system "elanon" ".
|> Even when I tried hostname -S darkstar for a test, it still responded
|> 'unknown system "darkstar" '.
|> If anyone can help, please reply via e-mail to
|> ac559@freenet.carleton.ca Thank you very much.
|>
|> -Ian!
|>
|> Ian Clysdale | | One .sig file to rule them all,
|> Co-Op, Bell Northern Research | | One .sig file to find them,
|> Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. | | One .sig file to bring them all,
|> #include<stdisclaim.h> | | And in the memory bind them.
I presume you did install Slackware 1.0.3.
There exist two files in /conf/net. One of them defines the hostname.
In /etc there are several more files containing the hostname darkstar.
Do a grep -l darkstar /etc/* and you get a list of files containing it.
Just edit these files and fill in your desired hostname.
I did it and i'm happily using my machine `hurricane' for about
a week now.
Good luck, althouh i suggest people SEARCH first before posting this kind of
articles...
Steef
E-Mail: debruijn@cs.utwente.nl