/etc/HOSTNAME
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Lee Hosty wrote:
> At 15:30 07/03/01 +0000, John Allen wrote:
> >I have created ISOs of the latest Cooker (7/3/2001), which seems to be
> >quite good. There are still a couple of minor problems, NIS/YP not
> >installed due to circular dependancy, mkisofs not installed, and
> >hostname not being set correctly, but other than that it is looking
> >pretty awsome.
>> has anyone else found that hostname doesnt set correctly in 7.0 / 7.1
> either ?? I can't get it to work anyway ...
>> typing: "hostname thallophytic" sets it while the machine is running...
> but once i reboot it reverts back to localhost.localdomain
>> i manually editted /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts also but got the same
> result ...
>>>> Lee Hosty -x- hostyle at oscail.com -x- +353 (0)86 8768780
>>>
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