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Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Sun Apr 11 18:44:02 UTC 2004


On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, Chris Penwell wrote:

> It looks like you didn't enter a hostname when you set up your networking. I
> installed 9.1 (i think,) on a friend of mine's machine, and it did the same
> thing.. kinda irritating..

  man hostname:

HOSTNAME(1)                 Linux Programmer's Manual               HOSTNAME(1)

NAME
       hostname - show or set the system's host name
       domainname - show or set the system's NIS/YP domain name
       dnsdomainname - show the system's DNS domain name
       nisdomainname - show or set system's NIS/YP domain name
       ypdomainname - show or set the system's NIS/YP domain name
       nodename - show or set the system's DECnet node name

SYNOPSIS
       hostname  [-v]  [-a]  [--alias] [-d] [--domain] [-f] [--fqdn] [-i] [--ip-
       address] [--long] [-s] [--short] [-y] [--yp] [--nis] [-n] [--node]

       hostname [-v] [-F filename] [--file filename] [hostname]

       domainname [-v] [-F filename] [--file filename] [name]

       nodename [-v] [-F filename] [--file filename] [name]

       hostname [-v] [-h] [--help] [-V] [--version]

       dnsdomainname [-v]
       nisdomainname [-v]
       ypdomainname [-v]

DESCRIPTION
       Hostname is the program that is used to either set or display the current
       host, domain or node name of the system.  These names are used by many of
       the networking programs to identify the machine. The domain name is also
       used by NIS/YP.

Rich

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