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Willie Wong wrote: |
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>On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 06:33:21PM -0400, C.Beamer wrote: |
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>>Hi All, |
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>>The first time I did a hard drive boot into Gentoon, I noticed two |
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>>messages as follows: |
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>>One said the make sure that the host name in /etc was set to a valid |
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>>host name. |
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>>Well, in /etc, I have a file named hosts and when I look at that, it |
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>>says that the host is localhost with the ip address of 127.0.0.1, which |
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>>is correct for local host. Should there be another host name in there? |
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>The message means for you to set the hostname in /etc/conf.d/hostname |
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>(or /etc/hostname if you are using a rather old baselayout). |
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>W |
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I don't have a /etc/hostname file, I just have a hosts file. Did I do |
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something wrong? My computer is a stand alone, but I connect to the |
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internet via cable modem. |
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Regards, |
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Colleen |
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