unsuccessful attempts to change darkstar

[Smokey]

I searched and found these threads
http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=96493&highlight=darkstar
http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=86851&highlight=darkstar

But hostname 'desiredname' works......but if I reboot it says it cannot find it.....so I have to change it back to darkstar.

This is what my /etc/hosts file looks like

# For loopbacking.
127.0.0.1 localhost
# This next entry is technically wrong, but good enough to get TCP/IP apps
# to quit complaining that they can't verify the hostname on a loopback-only
# Linux box.
127.0.0.1 darkstar.example.net darkstar

# End of hosts.

I changed it to smokey.example.net smokey

but it still gave me errors?

I connect to the internet with adsl-start so i cannot run netconfig to change my hostname otherwise it would mess it up......

btw, my desired hostname is to be usdafs.net

[MMYoung]

Have you tried reconfiguring your network setup using pkgtool?

Open a terminal and type in pkgtool, you will be asked for the root password. Now select Setup and then select netconfig.

HTH,
MMYoung

[MMYoung]

Originally posted by Smok3y
I connect to the internet with adsl-start so i cannot run netconfig
OOPS!

Sorry, I missed that. :D

MMYoung

[serz]

You have to change /etc/HOSTNAME as well.

[Smokey]

Originally posted by serz
You have to change /etc/HOSTNAME as well.

nano /etc/HOSTNAME

darkstar.example.net

what do I change it to? usdafs.usdafs.net ?

[serz]

smokey.example.net

or just smokey.

[Smokey]

Originally posted by serz
smokey.example.net

or just smokey.

thanks, worked like a charm. So basically for searching/archive purposes....

edit /etc/hosts
edit /etc/HOSTNAME
and do a 'hostname desiredname'

Thats what I did, Slackware10