--- Jeff Cours <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sean finney wrote: > > have you restarted those daemons? i think some of them may make a > single > > call to hostname when they start up, and never ask again until they > > reload or restart. > > Yes, when I saw that the old name was being used, I figured someone > must be caching it somewhere. Since I didn't know which processes or > how many, I took the easy way out and rebooted. Unfortunately, that > doesn't seem to have changed the situation -- it looks like the old > name must be stored in a file somewhere that the daemons are reading. > > - Jeff I missed the original post, so excuse me if I am muffing here, but you did edit /etc/hostname, right? slamson@callerio:~$ cat /etc/hostname callerio.piscat.nj slamson@callerio:~$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/hostname callerio.piscat.nj slamson@callerio:~$ You can #echo "name.network.domain" >/proc/sys/kernel/hostname #hostname to make change immediately w/o rebooting, although I don't know what this might affect otherwise! HTH Shawn
===== Shawn Lamson Debian Gnu/Linux Sid Kernel 2.4.19-custom XFree86 Version 4.2.1 __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
