Bret Comstock Waldow <bwaldow@compuserve.com> [2002-12-19 08:32:00 -0500]: > > I've been running Redhat 7.3, and I'm trying to install Woody instead. Welcome! I hope you find it as enjoyable as we do. > I have 7 CDs labeled "Woody Binaries v3.0r0 i386" a friend burned for > me. Good for a completely offline update. But if you have a high speed available then really you only need CD 1 to bootstrap you online. > I boot on CD 1, and install, use tselect to pick X86, GUI desktop, and a > few other tasks. The installation proceeds, reboots, I get a GUI. > I've been through the install several times, I fill in the name of my > machine when asked during the install, but it never shows up. What does hostname say? hostname The output of the hostname command is the only place I expect the hostname to "appear". > There is never a 'hosts' file in /etc, although there are > 'hosts.allow' and 'hosts.deny' files (apparently set up in response > to leafnode configuration). The /etc/hosts file usually contains the hostname for translation to the IP address and back again. But it does not set the hostname. And it is not required that it be present there. If you have a network connection then it can be geting DNS data from the network. The reason that the hostname _usually_ appears in /etc/hosts is so that if the network is offline you still have local networking through the 127.0.0.1 localhost loopback device. At boot time the /etc/init.hostname.sh file reads /etc/hostname and sets the hostname on the system. If that is not working then there is something very basic wrong. There is no place further to look than /etc/hostname and /etc/init.d/hostname.sh. Since there are only three lines of code in that script it is hard to believe it has gone wrong. When changing the hostname the minimum files to change are these two. /etc/hostname /etc/mailname Make sure the local name appears in /etc/hosts so that when or if networking is offline things still work. /etc/hosts If you are setting a static IP address or changing to or from DHCP then you need to edit this file. But I you chose DHCP then you are good to go and don't need any changes here. /etc/network/interfaces Depending upon your mail installation if you chose postfix (my recommendation) and also customized it then you _may_ have to change the hostname in this file too. /etc/postfix/main.cf Bob
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