[Gllug] Problem starting up

[Brent Geach]

yip. that's how I do it now.
Still got to tell /etc/hosts that newhostname is on local machine or it will try resolve it off dns 

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 12:18:23PM +0200, Xander D Harkness wrote:
> Red Hat sets the hostname in /etc/sysconfig/network
> 
> You will see entries in there for NIS, gateway and hostname.
> 
> The entry in there will reset the hostname at boot.
> 
> Rather than setting hostname in future using Linuxconf I would suggest 
> just changing the network file and then typing 'hostname mynewhostname'
> 
> Cheers
> Xander
> 
> Brent Geach wrote:
> > in /etc/hosts
> > 
> > 127.0.0.1       shadow.prv.uk.itouchnet.net shadow localhost localhost.localdomain
> > 
> > where shadow is my machine name, prv.uk.itouchnet.net is my domainn
> > That should sort sendmail and lpd out for you
> > 
> > Brent
> > 
> > On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 12:17:46AM +0100, Simon Bunker wrote:
> > 
> >>That is exactly the problem - and yup - Red Hat 7.1 :o) What is the hosts
> >>file meant to look like? I think I only changed /etc/hosts - do I need to
> >>change /etc/hostname too? Or does sendmail have it's own configuration that
> >>needs to be run?
> >>
> >>I did manage to get back in using the "Interactive startup" and just turning
> >>sendmail off when it asked me. I can't be bothered waiting five minutes for
> >>a timeout! Looks like it's fixable at least, but what needs to be changed to
> >>get it right again?
> >>
> >>thanks
> >>
> >>Simon
> >>http://www.rendermania.com/
> >>UIN 11123737
> >>
> >>
> >>>There is a problem in your /etc/hosts file, it's not resolving the
> >>>
> >>hostname correctly.
> >>
> >>>This would cause lpd to not start and make sendmail take a while to try
> >>>
> >>start on bootup. But it wont make the machine totally unbootable, just take
> >>a little while to get past sendmail.
> >>
> >>>I found that linuxconf had this problem. netcfg also made a lovelly mess
> >>>
> >>of my /etc/hosts file on redhat 7.1, I tend to try steer clear of these as
> >>they have caused me lots headaches in the past, especially when I tried to
> >>let linuxconf configure apache for me!
> >>
> >>>Brent
> >>>
> >>>On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 02:31:15AM +0100, Simon Bunker wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Hi all
> >>>>
> >>>>Ok I think I've just made a small mistake - hopefully one that can be
> >>>>
> >>solved
> >>
> >>>>the Linux way - ie not reinstalling the Operating system. I needed to
> >>>>
> >>change
> >>
> >>>>the name of my computer for some software that needs a host for its
> >>>>
> >>license,
> >>
> >>>>so I thought this would be fairly simple - changed it in linuxconf...and
> >>>>then something else told me to change it in /etc/hosts which I did.
> >>>>
> >>>>However it looks like there are a few other things I should have done.
> >>>>
> >>At
> >>
> >>>>the moment it halts at starting up the sendmail daemon just after the
> >>>>
> >>lpd
> >>
> >>>>daemon (which is no problem if that doesn't start - hardly as critical).
> >>>>
> >>>>Is there any way around this? Is there some way of dropping to a lower
> >>>>
> >>init
> >>
> >>>>level so these things don't get started and I can get back in? And what
> >>>>
> >>do I
> >>
> >>>>need to change to get things working again. I haven't really messed
> >>>>
> >>around
> >>
> >>>>with these sorts of things so it should be an interesting learning
> >>>>experience.
> >>>>
> >>>>Any pointers on where to start and get back going again? Luckily it is
> >>>>
> >>on
> >>
> >>>>seperate partitions so I could reinstall if I absolutely had to - but I
> >>>>would obviously prefer not too.
> >>>>
> >>>>thanks
> >>>>
> >>>>Simon
> >>>>http://www.rendermania.com/
> >>>>UIN 11123737
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>
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