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- From: hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg)
- Subject: hostname, was: Getting talk, telnet, ftp to work
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.174658.1714@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
- Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 17:46:58 GMT
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- pfr@psun2.hmi.de (Fritsch_Wolfgang) writes:
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- >when I run install.net it always quotes softland as the hostname
- >(I think this is what is called "hostname"). In the README it says one should
- >"define the hostname" but is does not say how to define it. Sorry, sorry for
- >this question which might be primitive for someone knowledgeble...
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- Look into /etc/rc.local. There is a line
- hostname softland
- The rest is left as exercise :-)
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