Hostname in 8.04

Onno Benschop onno at itmaze.com.au
Mon Sep 22 22:41:13 UTC 2008


Jim, I fixed your top-posting for you :)

On 23/09/08 00:17, Jim Tarvid wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Miano, Steven M. <Steven.Miano at mybrighthouse.com> wrote:
>   
>> Also be sure to edit /etc/hosts, as sudo (and I'm sure other utilities)
>> will not be happy if you decide to only change your /etc/hostname, and not
>> reflect that change in /etc/hosts.
>>     
> Also remember that ServerName in apache should resolve and that may depends
> on the hosts entry too.
>   

Is there a script that does this properly - tracking hostname entries
for installed applications with the ability to change it, or is it
assumed that once /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts are changed, everything
else uses those?


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