From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GDaY5-0003g0-QZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 05:36:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7H5Y7HP013482; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 05:34:07 GMT Received: from SMTP03.INFOAVE.NET (smtp03.infoave.net [165.166.0.28]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7H5W8Ai030815 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 05:32:09 GMT Received: from [208.34.232.181] by smtp.hostserver (PMDF V6.2-X31 #31343) with ESMTP id <01M62XBOM7MA8WWUPO@smtp.hostserver> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:31:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:31:47 -0400 From: Phil Sexton Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname In-reply-to: <44E3FA58.7060405@mid.email-server.info> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <44E3FF43.5020504@infoave.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8-1.1.fc4 (X11/20060501) References: <44E37755.5010800@gt.rr.com> <44E37A3B.4060903@comcast.net> <44E39107.5050609@gt.rr.com> <44E3AEB8.3080608@infoave.net> <44E3BAD4.1030802@gt.rr.com> <44E3C477.1050809@infoave.net> <44E3FA58.7060405@mid.email-server.info> X-Archives-Salt: 553d4367-dd83-4ee2-96ff-49a95aded2ff X-Archives-Hash: 13a220ad198579a4964fc83ef72f988f Alexander Skwar wrote: > Phil Sexton schrieb: >> I thought domainname was set in /etc/hosts. > > > No, it's not. NIS doesn't use /etc/hosts for these things. > >> Here is my /etc/conf.d/hostname: >> # Set to the hostname of this machine >> HOSTNAME="uilleann.fancypiper.info" > > > That's not a hostname. A hostname has no dots (.). What is NIS? So I should just have uilleann, tinwhistle and bones for the hostnames of my boxen, correct? What exactly does /etc/hosts do, then? -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free tunes: ftp://fancypiper.info/ Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list