Host name?

[Robert Meyer]

Yes, the world as you know it will cease to exist if you change localhost to
anything else.  Bad things, man... bad things.

The better approach is to change the line to look like:
127.0.0.1              localhost somesillyname

That way, localhost continues to work and so does the new name.

Cheers!

Bob

--- Jesse Jarzynka <denisesballs at thecybersource.com> wrote:

> That's crazy cuz I was just having a problem with this. I was looking
> through a linux book and saw that you can change the hostname by the
> command 'hostname' then after I did it I had an error from the
> /etc/hosts complaining about the hostname. It didnt change that file.
> The best way to change your hostname is to run neat and change it in
> there I think. -Jesse
> 
> On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 13:39, Joe wrote:
> 
> > I have /etc/hosts
> > 
> > bigbird at localhost tmp]$ cat /etc/hosts
> > 127.0.0.1               localhost
> > [bigbird at localhost tmp]$
> > 
> > Would it break anything if I changed "localhost" to another name?
> > 
> > Joe
> 



		
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