Re: Fw: Boot-time Usenet warning on cvalle
"carolina valle" wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've installed Debian as a partition to my Windows98 laptop...I'm a new user
>to Debian/Linux and I've been getting these emails at work. I've been asked
>to change the name of my machine (which is apparently 'fux'), but I don't
>know how to go about doing this. I've been getting emails like this for 2
Edit /etc/hostname; when you reboot the name will be changed.
You may also need to edit /etc/hosts.
How does the mail server at mail.yellowbrix.com know to send mail for
@fux to your box? There must be a definition of it on some other machine
tying your IP address to that name. That other box would also need to
be changed.
>weeks now. I do remember choosing the name 'fux' at one point during the
>installation, in which a more experienced Linux user was walking me through
>it. I would greatly appreciate it if you could tell me how to solve this
>problem. It seems that emails are being sent to 'root'@yellowbrix.com and
>then forwarded to my box (fux). I need to stop this from happening.
>
>Thanks so much!
>
>Carol
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: root <root@mail.yellowbrix.com>
>To: <usenet@fux>
>Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 9:47 AM
>Subject: Boot-time Usenet warning on cvalle
>
>
>> Old .news.daily file; need to run news.daily?
>>
>
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