On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 4:55 AM, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Mon 09 Jun 2014 at 01:23:43 -0400, Teresa e Junior wrote: >> >> $ cat /etc/hostname >> localhost > > I wouldn't use this in /etc/hostname. Contacting this machine from > elsewhwere on the network could prove frustrating. The hostname in "/etc/hostname" isn't necessarily the hostname used to access a box remotely; although it makes sense for them to be the same.