Re: hostname
On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 12:44:39PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> I won't even suggest running /etc/init.d/hostname.sh without rebooting
> in this case. There is too much baggage to recommend restarting
> everything that needs it. All of the mail daemons. Possibly
> networking. Possibly many things. Simpler to reboot after changing
> something fundamental like the kernel or the hostname.
Well, the maximum number of things which need it are those that are
running.. a simple runlevel change would do it; or just restart the
various networking things. On a desktop that would probably be very
few: inetd and exim most likely.
> Because it is so complicated to get right and so different between
> distros there is no single command to run to change the hostname.
> There might be, there could be, but there isn't. It is too easy to
> edit /etc/hostname.
I'll tell you what sucks, trying to change the domain name.
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Jon Dowland
http://jon.dowland.name/
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