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- From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: quick q
- Message-ID: <Ngq7wB3w165w@kf8nh.wariat.org>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 18:44:22 EST
- References: <1993Jan10.202059.5632@csd.uwe.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Personal System
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- root@slave.uwe.ac.uk (Operator (Phil/Dylan)) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan7.034007.26946@sfu.ca>, wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong)
- > writes:
- > |> In article <1993Jan6.080443.10051@cbfsb.cb.att.com> wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com
- > |> (William T. O Connell) writes:
- > |> >In article <1993Jan6.071608.4248@wuecl.wustl.edu> ppc1@cec2.wustl.edu (Pe
- > |> Pui Tak Chiu) writes:
- >
- > |> trying to ask is that (root@softland) thing. Well. Considering he
- > |> didn't specify where, I could be given some leeway in interpretation here.
- > |> But like, for that (root@softland) to be changed to (root@?????), I think
- > |> he'd need to recompile the kernel under the ????? hostname, am I correct?
- >
- > wrong,....
-
- Not entirely wrong. The *kernel* prints a banner along the lines of
-
- Linux 0.99 (root@softland) ...
-
- during the boot sequence. The version and user and host names are set when
- the kernel is compiled; thus, mine currently says
-
- Linux 0.99.pl2 (root@kf8nh) ...
-
- because I installed the 0.99.[12] patches, changed the busmouse IRQ, swapped
- SCSI support for QIC02 support, mangled the keyboard so the control key is
- where us ancient folks expect it :-) and built a new boot disk, *after*
- changing my hostname. (Earlier builds before I changed the hostname
- continued to proclaim "(root@softland)".)
-
- ++Brandon
-
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