Re: Got a machine name problem

[Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 19:36 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:

On Tue 23 Feb 2021 at 20:05:11 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 February 2021 14:29:01 Tom Browder wrote:

...

> > I also edit /etc/hosts and make the first couple of lines look like
> > this:
> >
> >     127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain.com   localhost
> >     127.0.1.1 TLM.geneslinuxbox.net        TLM

David, you got me. I put those lines in years ago (on some person's recommendation), while I was still running pre-Debian 4 (probably Redhat in the box days).

It works and that's all I can say.

Best,

-Tom