: [ FC2 ] ::.. NON-CRITICAL config question.
Yang Xiao
yxiao at ohpp.com
Wed May 19 15:18:58 UTC 2004
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Courie II [mailto:kernel-panic at ontheb.us]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 11:06 AM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: ..:: [ FC2 ] ::.. NON-CRITICAL config question.
>
>
> Hey all, My name is john and I am brand new to linux. I can
> count the hours booted into linux in my fingers, but I got
> sold on the F/OSS ideal and I am going to make this work.
>
> I installed FC2 last night and when it resolves my hostname
> through eth0
> it is some long ass nonsense that it gets dynamiclly from COMCAST.
>
> I want to change that to be a name I pick
>
> I looked through the BASH manual and through a few orielly
> books on tcpip, I googled and looked through some n00b
> forums, no luck...
>
> How do I configure my system to have a custom name that shows
> up on the prompt while still accepting and using the dynamic
> IP sent from comcast?
>
> I understand that there are considerably more critical issues
> that need to be adressed but I suspect that this question is
> trivial to many of you and can be anwsered easily.
>
> any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
Hi,
Since you are new to Linux, you might want to run system-config-network and
select the NIC that is configured with DHCP, configure the hostname
manually, and save and reboot.
Yang
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