Hostname configuration on DHCP/DNS server: /etc/hosts vs. /etc/hostname

[Chris G]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:38:07PM +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Le 29/03/2011 15:19, Chris G a écrit :
> 
> >>
> >>Please take no offense, but there's no sense in running
> >>NetworkManager on a server.
> >>
> >Very true, but it comes by default in a standard Ubuntu installation.
> >
> Not on Ubuntu Server Edition.
> 
No, but my 'server' is also my desktop machine, it's on a small home LAN
and is the web and news server for the LAN and is also visible from the
outside world as a web server - mostly for my own convenience so when
I'm out and about I can get to the web pages on my home server where I
store all sorts of useful information that I have collected over the
years. 

I do also have an Ubuntu Server installation on one of the other
machines as that is headles and doesn't need a GUI.

BUT running a machine as a server with apache etc. on it doesn't
necessarily mean that it doesn't have a GUI as well.

-- 
Chris Green