Re: [LUG] Hostname woes

[Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Julian Hall wrote:
|
| I don't know if any of that helps at all.
|
| Also a friend of mine suggested adding the right hostname to /etc/hostname
| (although that file was not on my system).  Do you know what the
syntax ought
| to be?

For those distro's that do it - it is just the hostname.

$ cat /etc/hostname
derek

But I think you should read "man hostname", they put the manual pages
there for a reason ;)
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