Re: [gentoo-user] Messages on boot

["C.Beamer" <cbeamer@interlynx.net>]

Willie Wong wrote:

>On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 06:33:21PM -0400, C.Beamer wrote:
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>>Hi All,
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>>The first time I did a hard drive boot into Gentoon, I noticed two
>>messages as follows:
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>>One said the make sure that the host name in /etc was set to a valid
>>host name.
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>>Well, in /etc, I have a file named hosts and when I look at that, it
>>says that the host is localhost with the ip address of 127.0.0.1, which
>>is correct for local host.  Should there be another host name in there?
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>The message means for you to set the hostname in /etc/conf.d/hostname
>(or /etc/hostname if you are using a rather old baselayout). 
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I don't have a /etc/hostname file, I just have a hosts file.  Did I do
something wrong?  My computer is a stand alone, but I connect to the
internet via cable modem.

Regards,

Colleen
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