Re: [Sheflug] IP address via DHCP

[nospam [at] alexhudson.com]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 10:14:02AM +0100, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > > same theme, how do I change the hostname to something other than
> > > /"linux"? 
> > etc/hostname, among other methods.
> 
> Did you mean /etc/hosts?

No. hostname = me, hosts = them. Unless you have something in your init
script which does a reverse lookup on 127.0.0.1 to get the hostname, you
change the hostname file. It's often nice to have an entry in hosts too, so
the machine can find an IP addresses associated with the name. At least,
that's how I've always done it, there are probably better (ie. correct) ways
of doing it :)

Cheers,

Alex.
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