Re: changing hostname
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 01:53:23PM +0200, Joost Kooij wrote:
| On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:31:51AM +0200, Adri wrote:
| > I changed my /etc/hostname from debianAdriano to Adriano
| >
| > That's because I'd like to bring my debian under the Windows domain of the
| > company.
[snip lots of fun to read colorful descriptions of how to use linux in
a windows environment]
| > But now I wonder what other files still refer to the old name? What
| > consequences I'm gonna run into?
|
| Most things will survive quite well. The mail system may be a little
| tricky though, mail loops are evil so you should definately make sure
| that that is consistent. With exim it is easy, run eximconfig again,
| just like you did already.
|
| "grep -r $oldname /etc" is your friend. That is what I've done a few
| times in the past and it works quite well. Vi a bit here and there and
| maybe restart a daemon. "cat $newname > /proc/sys/kernel/hostname" and
| you need not even reboot AFAIK.
I've changed my hostname a few times (indecisiveness) and had a little
trouble, but not too much. I used hostname(1) to set the new name in
the currently running kernel. I found out, through trial and error,
that it isn't persistant through a reboot. So I used hostname(1) and
vi to change /etc/hostname. (I also updated /etc/hosts for
convenience) The problem then was I couldn't reboot -- init would
hang when starting sysklogd. The solution I found to work was to
disable the daemon(s) (using the install cd to boot to a root shell
and mount the hard drive) causing trouble and then boot. Once a boot
is successful (btw, you'll get some funny "error" messages if sysklogd
isn't running) re-enable the daemons and reboot. Then all is well.
I wasn't actually using exim, so it is probably still messed up, but
I'm still not actually using it so it doesn't matter in my case.
-D
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