Re: Consquences of changing hostname
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On Saturday 23 November 2002 14:28, Robert Ian Smit wrote:
> I am used to leaving "Enter domainname" blank when I install Debian.
>
> So all my systems are called something like box1 or box2.
>
> I want to add to this name so it becomes box1.foo.domain.
>
> I have searched through /etc and i have found a couple of files that
> reflect the hostname of the machine.
>
> Can I update these files to the new name? I am most worried about the
> exim and ssh(d) configuration? Exim for obvious reasons, and ssh for
> fear of being locked out of remote systems (I use key pair
> authentication and don't want to get on a bus to reset public keys.)
I'm switching between two hostnames frequently just by changing
/etc/hostname (and calling /etc/init.d/hostname.sh afterwards) and I
haven't encountered problems so far. Even SSH doesn't seem to mind,
even though I'm using a keypair generated for one name for both.
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