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Red_Devil
09-17-2002, 02:17 PM
How does one rename of the unix box. The one have is the default. Thank you in advance!:rolleyes:

fancypiper
09-17-2002, 02:29 PM
Edit (as root) /etc/hosts to look similar to mine# fancypiper Gentoo /etc/hosts file
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 fancypiper localhost.localdomain localhostAlso create a file /etc/hostname with one word in it, your hostname.fancypiper