On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:53:04PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 06:53:28PM +0000, Tendril wrote: > > ie. my computer is called achilles and I would like to change it to > > something else. I would look in the help files, but I don't know what > > this process is called. > > I did this recently... I changed the following files: > /etc/hosts > /etc/hostname > /etc/postfix/main.cf # obviously only if you're using postfix ...similarly /etc/exim/exim.conf if you're using exim. I don't know if there exists a list somewhere of all the config files that your machine name might find its way into. It might be useful to do something like: for x in `find /etc -name '*'`; do grep achilles $x > /dev/null 2>&1 && echo $x; done just to make sure you've caught everything. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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