[Gllug] Problem starting up

[Xander D Harkness]

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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