[H-GEN] stupid needs help - sudo and hostname

[Troy Piggins]

* Murray McAllister wrote :
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Troy Piggins <troy at piggo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Just re-installed a linux box today.  Hostname "netserv".  All
>> went fine - Ubuntu 8.04 distro.  Copying over config files from
>> previous installation to "make it easier", I renamed /etc/hosts
>> to /etc/hosts.INSTALL so I could copy the previous installation's
>> hosts file into /etc.
>>
>> Doing all this as a user, I had been using sudo to do these type
>> of operations.  But when I tried to copy /mnt/usbdrive/etc/hosts
>> (the previous install's hosts file) to /etc, get a sudo error
>> about "netserv hostname not known".  So now I can't sudo
>> anything, and can't get /any/ hosts file to work.
>>
>> Didn't realise sudo was tied to the hostname.
> 
> I'm very tired and not sure I follow what you're saying, but if you:
> 
> 1. Boot into safe mode (I think ubuntu adds a grub menu for this,
> otherwise before booting, add "single" to the kernel boot options...)
> 2. Open /etc/hosts
> 3: Add something like the following:
> 
> 127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost       netserv
> 
> Hope that helps...

Sure does.  I'll give that a go.  Thanks.

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