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  From: Alan Kennington <akenning@topology.org>
  To  : LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 21:33:40 +0930

Re: Hostname

On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 12:00:04PM +0930, Andrew Williss wrote:
> Hi list,
> what file, sets the hostname and domainame of the machine on BOOT?
> I thought my /etc/hosts would do this but it doesn't...
> I have to manually set my hostname ie
> root@pikachiu root$ hostname [myhostname]
> why is this so?
> I found this out because samba wouldn't work and it ended up being a hostname 
> problem...(samba works fine as long as you change the hostname!)
>  Any help gladly recieved...
> -- 


It might be /etc/HOSTNAME.
Cheers,
Alan Kennington.

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