Problem after changing hostname

Peteris Krumins <pkruminsREMOVETHIS.TakeThisOut@inbox.lv> wrote in message news:<Xns93B21BA68B181whitesuneapollolv.TakeThisOut@130.133.1.4>...
> oamd.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com (Ollie) wrote in
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> > I changed my hostname for my linux installation and I now have problem
> > accessing the web through my dsl setup. The connection was fine prior
> > to changing the hostname. Can anyone help?
> >
> > Ollie...
> >
>
> More details, please.
>
>
> P.Krumins

What are the steps to take to change a hostname on a linux box?

oamd.RemoveThis@yahoo.com (Ollie) wrote in
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> Peteris Krumins <pkruminsREMOVETHIS.RemoveThis@inbox.lv> wrote in message
> news:<Xns93B21BA68B181whitesuneapollolv.RemoveThis@130.133.1.4>...
>> oamd.RemoveThis@yahoo.com (Ollie) wrote in
>> news:82f47a3c.0307071502.1b93475e@posting.google.com:
>>
>> > I changed my hostname for my linux installation and I now have
>> > problem accessing the web through my dsl setup. The connection was
>> > fine prior to changing the hostname. Can anyone help?
>> >
>> > Ollie...
>> >
>>
>> More details, please.
>>
>>
>> P.Krumins
>
> What are the steps to take to change a hostname on a linux box?
>

hostname(1) and /etc/HOSTNAME


P.Krumins

In article <Xns93B6BD2F71CDEwhitesuneapollolv.TakeThisOut@130.133.1.4>,
Peteris Krumins wrote:
>> What are the steps to take to change a hostname on a linux box?
>
> hostname(1) and /etc/HOSTNAME

Well, yes, but that filename does vary by distro. I think Red Hat and
its heirs read it from somewhere in /etc/sysconfig. This:
grep hostname /etc/rc.d/*
will work on any distro with boot scripts in /etc/rc.d. (Which, I
believe, is all of the major ones.) That will show the hostname(1)
command being run.

Really questions such as this belong in a distro-specific forum, because
there might be special tools which do this. Slackware has "netconfig",
for example.
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On 12 Jul 2003 15:36:21 GMT, Peteris Krumins
<pkruminsREMOVETHIS DeleteThis @inbox.lv> wrote:
>
> hostname(1) and /etc/HOSTNAME
>
The /etc/ filename where the hostname is stored varies from one distro
to another. Debian uses /etc/hostname, I think RH uses
/etc/sysconfig/hostname.

--
Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I want to be when
I grow up.
-- Peter Drucker

In RedHat and Mandrake you can set the HOSTNAME parameter in
/etc/sysconfig/network.
With "/etc/init.d/network restart" you can activate the new configuration
instantly.

"Bill Marcum" <bmarcum.TakeThisOut@iglou.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:bn26u-drp.ln1@don.localnet...
> On 12 Jul 2003 15:36:21 GMT, Peteris Krumins
> <pkruminsREMOVETHIS.TakeThisOut@inbox.lv> wrote:
> >
> > hostname(1) and /etc/HOSTNAME
> >
> The /etc/ filename where the hostname is stored varies from one distro
> to another. Debian uses /etc/hostname, I think RH uses
> /etc/sysconfig/hostname.
>
> --
> Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I want to be when
> I grow up.
> -- Peter Drucker

"Testuser test0430" <test0430.RemoveThis@tu-berlin.de> wrote in message news:<bf32ga$hjm$1@mamenchi.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>...
> In RedHat and Mandrake you can set the HOSTNAME parameter in
> /etc/sysconfig/network.
> With "/etc/init.d/network restart" you can activate the new configuration
> instantly.
>
> "Bill Marcum" <bmarcum.RemoveThis@iglou.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:bn26u-drp.ln1@don.localnet...
> > On 12 Jul 2003 15:36:21 GMT, Peteris Krumins
> > <pkruminsREMOVETHIS.RemoveThis@inbox.lv> wrote:
> > >
> > > hostname(1) and /etc/HOSTNAME
> > >
> > The /etc/ filename where the hostname is stored varies from one distro
> > to another. Debian uses /etc/hostname, I think RH uses
> > /etc/sysconfig/hostname.
> >

Using a tool like Webmin is cool too. Gets round having to know the
distro as well