How to find/change machine name

[Tim]

On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 08:10 +0100, Bob Latham wrote:
> Yes. Well on everything except Linux it seems as when I just tried it
> I found it worked fine but I could not find a way to stop it pinging.
> Not even the escape key did anything. That just seem like being
> different for the sake of it even if it means being really awkward. In
> the end I quit the terminal and restarted it. I think that's stopped
> it but I'm not sure.

It's stopped the way that just about everything command-line-based has
been stopped for the last 40 years or so:  CTRL C

The escape key wasn't actually meant for breaking out of things, it was
meant for escape codes (escape, plus something else, is a code).

> Any suggestions how to work out what I need to kill in SELinux to let
> me share a folder?

On FC7 there's a SELinux management system adminstration GUI, and in
there's a boolean sub-section which let you set options related to what
will be allowed with Samba.  There's probably something similarly named
on FC8.

Sounds like it might be worth your while to get one of those pocketbook
Fedora things from a news agent, the ones that are about the size of the
Readers Digest, and come with install discs.  They're cheap, and usually
come with basics for beginners.

-- 
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