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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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