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On Sunday 7 January 2007 18:57, John covici wrote: |
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> Hi. I am still new to gentoo, so this may explain my questions. |
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> I want to set a domain name, but when I put |
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> dns_domain="covici.com" |
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> in /etc/conf.d/net, it apparently didn't like it because the login |
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> banner still said unknown_domain. |
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I did not get that working until I put the fqdn in /etc/hosts, although |
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I'm still thinking that there should be some other (better?) way. A line |
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like this: |
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10.0.0.1 myhost.mydomain.tld myhost |
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did the job for me. |
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> Also, any reliable way to get a certain device to be eth0, etc. I saw |
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> the rename, but net.examples said that was not optional. |
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You have to create some udev rules to tie device names to MAC addresses. |
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Search the archives of this mailing list and you'll find a few threads |
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about this problem (with the solutions, of course). |
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HTH |
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