Thanks Thomas; On Sun, 2008-12-21 at 23:38 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote: > William Case wrote: > > Hi; > > > > This is an old stupid question but I am stuck nonetheless. I have > > googled for several different ways but none work. > > > > I have changed my /etc/hosts file to: > > 127.0.0.1 CASE localhost.localdomain localhost > > > > This is the same as from my F9 /etc backup. > > > > CASE is the name of my machine. None of my programs seems to recognize > > it except 'hostname' -s or -f. The same problem with > > localhost.localdomain. I have changed it manually before in earlier > > Fedora versions but now nothing seems to work. If I remember correctly > > there where two files that needed changing. > > > > I just installed F10 and must have missed Anaconda asking for my machine > > name. > > > > Your hostname is set in /etc/sysconfig/network. /etc/hosts is only for > name resolution, although you should prbably set your hostname there as > well. You should use lower case for the hostname, some apps don't grok > mixed or upper case. > I set the hostname with lower case in network. Everything works fine -- I guess I just had a brain cramp or something. However, I had heard that some programs don't understand upper case hostnames. In F9 I purposefully used CASE to see. I didn't hit one program that had a problem. I wonder if that means the world has changed by now and a user can get away with using upper case. -- Regards Bill Fedora 10, Gnome 2.24.2 Evo.2.24.2, Emacs 22.2.1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
