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I have a question, when I open aterm (this is just an example) it says: septor@wbar2:~>, my question is, how do I change the wbar2 part? What is it? And ...
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Hostname change?
I have a question, when I open aterm (this is just an example) it says: septor@wbar2:~>, my question is, how do I change the wbar2 part? What is it? And why in the world is it wbar2?
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Hostname..
Greetings,
The wbar2 is ur hostname u can find the entry in the /etc/hosts file. also, you can find the same entry in the /etc/sysconfig/network file. If you want to change your hostname you can change it in either of the files you want.
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No, you don't change your hostname in /etc/hosts. Actually it depends on the distro, on some distros you can just change it from /etc/hostname or /etc/HOSTNAME, or anothers it's /etc/sysconfig/network as you well said.
If you're running SuSE then you can change your hostname with YaST, network section.serzsite.com.ar
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Greetings,
The files I have mentioned is specifically for the RedHat Flavour... I apologize that I didnt mentioned it earlier as I shud have to avoid confusion...
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I don't see anywhere in there that says wbar2. Do I have to restart X for the changes to take place?
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Like for example slackware (10.0) automaticly sets the hostname to "darkstar" if nothing is spesifyed, so maybe this is the case of your distro too. Also, sometimes the computer recieves a hostname over DHCP, in that case you shoul leave it like that.
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So you're telling me it's impossible to change it
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Since you're running SuSE, you should be able to change your hostname by simply starting YAST and go to Network Services. From there, choose DNS and Host Name and click Modify. Then enter in the desired host name. Click finish and that should be it.
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No, I'm not saying it's impossible to change it. I'm saying that if the case is that the hostname is recieved over DHCP, you must turn off the ability to recieve hostname over DHCP (on gentoo it's in /etc/rc.conf), but in that case you may not be able to connect afterwords. But useally you don't recieve any hostname from the DHCP-server, I just say that on SOME networks you do.
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If he turns off DHCP and goes static, he would just have to have DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf, a static IP address, subnet, etc. and add a default gateway; it's not all that bad to configure that stuff.
Of course, by far the easiest thing would be to use DHCP...There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
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