On 24 August 2010 19:52, Carlos Mennens <carloswill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have read on Google searches and on all over so many different ways > to properly set a FQDN on Arch Linux and am more confused than I was > before I started looking this up. I don't ever get prompted during the > Arch installer to enter a 'hostname' but rather do so in /etc/rc.conf > which appears to make no difference because it's superseded by > /etc/hosts. Can someone tell me if I want my Arch machine called > "bishop.mydomain.tld", how does one properly and officially achieve > this task in Arch? > > Thanks! > You'll get many different answers, but this is how I do it. You'll get different results for hostname and hostname -f this way. Take into consideration that on a machine that uses DHCP you'll not be able to do this reliably due to the changing IP unless you can assign it on the router/gateway. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.64 myname.mydomain.com myname -- Jason Steadman http://www.meyithi.com/ http://twitter.com/meyithi
