Magnus Therning wrote:
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 13:33:01 +0100, Chris Lale wrote:
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A workaround is to change the hostname by editing /etc/hostname directly.
# echo desktop > /etc/hostname
Isn't /etc/hosts involved in this as well?
At least for 'hostname -f' is seems to be.
/etc/hosts seems to be behaving all right. Here is my /etc/hosts file.
(I do not know where the 127.0.1.1 entry came from, but I commented out
anyway.) Note: I now have "desktop" as the hostname and I am trying to
change it to "earth".
127.0.0.1 localhost desktop
#127.0.1.1 earth.home earth
192.168.1.2 desktop.home desktop
192.168.1.3 laptop.home laptop
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
Here is the result of localhost --fqdn (after successful boot retaining
the name "desktop" by manually editing /etc/hostname):
# hostname
desktop
# hostname --fqdn
localhost
Here is the result after changing the name to "earth" with the hostname
command:
# hostname earth
# hostname
earth
# cat /etc/hostname
desktop
# hostname --fqdn
hostname: Unknown host
I still cannot work out how hostname is remembering a name ("earth")
that it has not saved in /etc/hostname (which still contains "desktop").
hostname --fqdn is also confused and cannot find a host!
--
Chris.
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