On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 04:10:41PM -0500, Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > Is it possible to set the hostname and domainname? Will anything break? > What is the best way to do this? Modifying /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname or > using the hostname command? It is possible. The first thing I do after reflashing is type: hostname ehwaz echo 'ehwaz' >> /etc/hostname The hostname command will not change the hostname permanently. That is why you have to set it with /etc/hostname. I don't usually set my domain name because I am not always in a network as that domain name. If I was clever I would get dhcp to do that for me when I did connect to a network. > Will anything break if I modify /etc/resolv.conf > to have a "search <domain>" entry? What is the equivalent of the supersede > domain-name entry of /etc/dhclient.conf? What is the equivalent of > /etc/mailname? What is the equivalent of dc_other_hostnames and dc_readhost > of /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf? What is the equivalent of dns-search in > in /etc/network/interfaces? dhcpd (or maybe it is udhcp from busybox) may overwrite your /etc/resolv.conf. And blow away your search directive. But it won't hurt anything to put it in. E -- Erik Hovland mail: erik at hovland.org web: http://hovland.org/ PGP/GPG public key available on request
