Re: Changing hostname

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

* Tong* wrote:

> Hi, 
>
> Quick question how to change hostname under debian? 
>
> I changed my /etc/hosts 
> from 
> 127.0.0.1       cxmr		                localhost
> to
> 127.0.0.1       cxmr.dyndns.org                 localhost
>
> but why my hostname is still reporting merely 'cxmr'?
> How to fix it? (Surely I've rebooted).
>
> Thanks
>
> PS. is it the reason that I can't start squid?:
>
> # /etc/init.d/squid start
> Starting proxy server: FATAL: Could not determine fully qualified hostname.  Please set 'visible_hostname'
>  
The hostname for your system is defined in /etc/hostname, not in 
/etc/hosts. However, there may be several places in the /etc directory 
where it is specified in various config files, such as /etc/hosts. There 
may be a squid config file that needs changing also. You might want to 
run something like "grep -r -n cxmr /etc" to find all the locations 
where the filename is used.

--
Kent