On 9/23/05, Bill Marcum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 04:50:26PM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > My friend installed Debian on his computer and I'm supposed to be > > admining it as a server. THings are going well (except I keep > > mistyping shutdown and killing the server), but there is one problem: > > the hostname. > > > > He typed Ask4 instead of ask4, which is a problem. > > > > I assume I can change this with the hostname command, but I want to be sure > > there arn't any additional steps beyond this. > > > The hostname command will only change it temporarily. For a permanent > change, edit /etc/hostname. >
and /etc/hosts -- Chris Martin Web Developer Open Source & Web Standards Advocate http://www.chriscodes.com/