Re: Changing hostname

[Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 05:57:16PM -0400, * 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).
> 

first thing, you host name is merely cxmr.
dyndns.org is your domain name, not part of your hostname. That should
appear in the domain directive in your /etc/resolv.conf if you want.

To change your hostname you can edit /etc/hostname or run 
hostname <new host name>

> 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'
> 
> 
> 
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