More stuff about linux and setting proper domain name

[hawkwynd]

That cinched it quite nicely. Thank you

Scottt

John Nichel wrote:

> hawkwynd wrote:
>
>> Forgive me for my ignorance, but I'm wondering what the proper way is 
>> to name my machine so I am not getting the following mesages in my log:
>>
>>> Jul  4 05:51:47 Cavetroll sendmail[4470]: My unqualified host name 
>>> (cavetroll) unknown; sleeping for retry
>>> Jul  4 05:52:47 Cavetroll sendmail[4470]: unable to qualify my own 
>>> domain name (cavetroll) -- using short name
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I have this machine on my home network, with a small lan of windows 
>> machines, connected to a Linksys router/firewall. How do I properly 
>> set the host name so it knows who itself is?
>
>
> Put it in /etc/hosts.  You should have a line like this...
>
> 127.0.0.1    localhost.localdomain   localhost
>
> So just tack it onto the end of that line....
>
> 127.0.0.1    localhost.localdomain   localhost cavetroll
>