Re: [tlug] Re: Fwd: Re: Suse blues-progress?

[paul arenson <paul@example.com>]

On Thursday 11 March 2004 12:17, Botond Botyanszki wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:21:56 +0900 (JST)
>
> "paul arenson" <paul@example.com> wrote:
> > usen-221x242x10x37 name...This was established (detected?)  by Suse
> >
> > I wonder if that has anything
> > to do with my problems. (In gnome it tells me to add that name to a file
> > since gnome sayus it cannot connect, but then I type TRY ANYWAY and it
> > works In KDE it just works).
>
> I suggest you change your system to have a sane hostname, e.g.:
>
> # cat /etc/hostname
> mybox
>
> # cat /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1       mybox
> 127.0.0.1       localhost localhost.localdomain
>

I tried and it didn't work, so I added su to get to root...Is that correct so 
far?

When I did that, I got the # prompt, but it still hasn't worked.  I cannot 
find anything in the Suse manual about changing host names....



I tried hostname and got nothing, though hosts gave me a list....
usen-221x242x10x37:/home/arenson # cat /etc/hostname
cat: /etc/hostname: そのようなファイルやディレクトリはありません
But when I type cat /etc/hosts here is what I get-->

usen-221x242x10x37:/home/arenson # cat /etc/hosts
#
# hosts         This file describes a number of hostname-to-address
#               mappings for the TCP/IP subsystem.  It is mostly
#               used at boot time, when no name servers are running.
#               On small systems, this file can be used instead of a
#               "named" name server.
# Syntax:
#
# IP-Address  Full-Qualified-Hostname  Short-Hostname
#

127.0.0.1       localhost

# special IPv6 addresses
::1             localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback

fe00::0         ipv6-localnet

ff00::0         ipv6-mcastprefix
ff02::1         ipv6-allnodes
ff02::2         ipv6-allrouters
ff02::3         ipv6-allhosts

127.0.0.2       linux.local     linux
usen-221x242x10x37:/home/arenson #

So I am not sure why I cannot type 
# cat /etc/hostname
mybox

(I assume I could have made mybox something like sexdrive too, right?

And I type mybox or whatever after 
pressing return.  But after pressing return I get
usen-221x242x10x37:/home/arenson #
usen-221x242x10x37:/home/arenson # cat /etc/hostname
cat: /etc/hostname: そのようなファイルやディレクトリはありません
usen-221x242x10x37:/home/arenson #



Feel like I am on the way, though....

Thanks









I suggest you change your system to have a sane hostname, e.g.:

# cat /etc/hostname
mybox

# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1       mybox
127.0.0.1       localhost localhost.localdomain

Then try `ping mybox` to see if it went okay.

This way programs trying to resolve your machine's hostname won't
hang/time-out like gnome does and it might solve your canna problems as
well.




> Then try `ping mybox` to see if it went okay.
>
> This way programs trying to resolve your machine's hostname won't
> hang/time-out like gnome does and it might solve your canna problems as
> well.

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