This one time, at band camp, Robert Ian Smit said: > 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.) > > If I had entered a domain-name at setup time, would foo.domain just > be appended to the entry in /etc/hosts or would other configuration > have taken place? I compare to an OpenBSD box that is already setup > correctley wrt name+domain. That system uses an entry in /etc/hosts > and has the file /etc/myname. (It's apples and oranges, I know) > > I want to be able to use short names as well. Is it possible to do > this with entries in /etc/hosts like: > > 192.168.1.4 box1.foo.domain box1 > > If so, would all regular network applications parse the entire entry > to find both names? (expressed from users point of view) > > I could give it a shot, but I'd rather await tips and mentions from > this list. > > Bob I just went through this, and you have it right. Put entries in that format in /etc/hosts, and /etc/hostname will just have the short name (box1, box2, etc) Entering the hostname at install time just puts the name in /etc/hostname, ao AFAIK, you still have to append the domain in /etc/hosts. HTH, -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | One good turn deserves another. -- | | steve@lobefin.net | Gaius Petronius | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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