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

[Troy Piggins]

* Murray McAllister wrote :
> 
> [snip]
> >> 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.
> 
> I am still a bit lost on what machine is what. The 'netserv' part
> should be set in /etc/hosts on the machine that you want to be called
> netserv.

This is what it /should/ contain.

-----
$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost

192.168.0.1 netserv 
-----

But by renaming it to /etc/hosts.ORIG there was a brief period
where there was /no/ hosts file.  That's when the problem arose.

> In case you don't already know, the format of /etc/hosts is:
> 
> ip address     fully qualified domain name      aliases
> 
> I don't think there is a limit on aliases. In the example above,
> 'localhost' and 'netserv' will both resolve to 127.0.0.1

Thanks again.

Can't test it out until tonight.

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