On Tue, May 07, 2002, Eliran wrote about "Nicknames for my Hostname": > 'eliran', pinging 'eliran' (ping eliran) works fine but why does the shell bash >keeps telling me it's 'localhost' (I set PS1="\h\$ " but it still keeps > showing me localhost). > > Here is my /etc/hosts after adding a 'eliran' to the begining. >.. > Are there other places which I should set this ?
/etc/hosts has nothing to do with the host name the shell reports. The kernel keeps track of a "host name" returned by commands like "uname -n" or "hostname", and also by your shell. You set it with the "hostname" command too: "hostname eliran". However, the effect of the "hostname" command is only until the next reboot. Each distribution should have some init file that reads the host name from a file and sets it with "hostname" - in RedHat the file you should edit is /etc/sysconfig/network (the variable HOSTNAME). Or just use linuxconf. -- Nadav Har'El | Tuesday, May 7 2002, 26 Iyyar 5762 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |He who has more is not happier than he http://nadav.harel.org.il |who wants less. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
