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 4.43) id 1DyxCy-0004IX-0E for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 19:41:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6UJdbsZ019962; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 19:39:37 GMT Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.199]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6UJZpJE017649 for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 19:35:52 GMT Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id a41so1199448rng for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 12:36:44 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=muCT0pAKoxJds26M2IbmxQHKN65ZylEppURVGvElglhk+yqUU2uDyGjE4LU7QN7MgbNLcuY7Jr6d2srsB+2HYtGUVittcjQHGEOrccWa50BpwmgUz4nhE4vR2cVuWSla9ZIsgy1dZ5dBhTm69PoDZb5n27DHO6eJXxHBLTVDUBo= Received: by 10.38.90.19 with SMTP id n19mr2059686rnb; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 12:36:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.73.54 with HTTP; Sat, 30 Jul 2005 12:36:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <642958cc05073012364f7205db@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 15:36:44 -0400 From: Mark Shields To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with hostname In-Reply-To: <642958cc05073012306ed7170a@mail.gmail.com> 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; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <642958cc05073012306ed7170a@mail.gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j6UJZpJE017649 X-Archives-Salt: c87f117b-af10-4498-84f5-ede3b190526e X-Archives-Hash: 17b2bb8cd2d6d5e22091fa41cdf44869 (none) mark # cat /etc/conf.d/hostname && cat /etc/conf.d/dnsdomainname laeb laeb.dyndns.org (none) mark # On 7/30/05, Mark Shields wrote: > I first noticed this problem when the tightvnc server refused to > start, giving some errors about unknown token "(" and ")". I then > noticed my prompt had changed from -- laeb mark# -- to -- (none) mark > # . A day or so prior I had moved the hostname and dnsdomainname from > their deprecated location to the new location, /etc/conf.d/. Prior to > that I believe it was working fine. I have since powered it down once > (moved it from one location to another). Any ideas? As for seeing > what the server prints out on screen before it gives a login prompt > (to see what FQDN it prints out), I'm unable to give that information > at the moment as I'm logged in at work via ssh. > > - Mark Shields > -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list