RE: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work
> From: Leonard Chatagnier [mailto:lenc@ruralcomm.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 11:43 AM
>
> Ugh, don't know how to, yet. Could you give me the command
> or referenct?
Login as root and type the following:
echo chatagnier > /etc/hostname
To clarify my previous post:
In my other post I said source /etc/profile because, normally, this file is
automatically sourced when a normal user logs in, and PS1 (the variable that
controls how the prompt looks) is set there. You sane always change that at
any time by doing something like PS1="My Prompt: ".
I also gave this option of sourceing ~/.profile because I didn't know if you
were logging in as a normal user or root. On the system I use, when root
logs in, /etc/profile is NOT sourced, but the .profile file in root's home
directory is (the tilda (~) is shorthand for the current user's home
directory).
> Len Chatagnier
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kent West" <westk@acu.edu>
> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 8:42 AM
> Subject: Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb
> 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work
>
>
> > Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> >
> > >RE: Nathan Croy's suggestions:
> > >#hostname=none
> > >I have no hostname file in /etc, only host.conf,
> hosts.allow, hosts.deny
> and
> > >host.canna.
> > >
> > >
> > So create an "/etc/hostname" file, and in it have your computer's
> hostname.
> >
> > --
> > Kent West
> > westk@acu.edu
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