[wellylug] hostname

Damon Lynch damon at dev-zone.org
Sun Feb 23 17:57:33 NZDT 2003


On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 17:26, Rose McGillicuddy wrote:

> I am wondering whether to persist or not.  

Don't give up quite yet!  There is no need to install another distro
instead of a current one for a small change like that :-)  Brent's
instructions are good.

BTW if you make this the only line of your /etc/hosts file, which you
can only edit while logged in as root, you should be set:

127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost

to modify this, I suggest you login as a normal user, then open a
terminal, type su and then hit enter, type your password (and hit
enter), then enter gedit /etc/hosts (with enter), replace whatever is in
there with the above line, save the file.  Next time you reboot you'll
be fine.

Tell us how you get on.

Damon
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Damon Lynch <damon at dev-zone.org>


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