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Re: disconnected environment



On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 10:38:49AM -0700, Greg Baker wrote:

> Have a look at the ISP-HOWTO.  I seem to remember that putting a fake
> fully qualified domain name (ie. linuxbox.mydomain.local) in /etc/hostname
> fixed that problem, though. 
> 
Thank you, it works now.
I also put in /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost mybox mybox.home.net
not sure if it was necessary

it's funny enough that you should not
put extra newlines in /etc/hostname
it fools 'hostname --file /etc/hostname'
and it doesn't set any hostname at all

Konstantin


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