Hostname display error on terminals: taku.(none)

niffs · This is taku.(none) (Linux i686 2.6.10-r3...

This problem is nothing major, and Im sure theres a simple solution to it, but its starting to get on my nerves... What happens is that my system boots up fine, it sets the hostname with the init.d scripts (as well as dnsdomain name), but when getty comes up, I get this:

papal_authority · Veteran Joined: 31 Mar 2004 Posts: 1823 Location: Canada

Well apparently there's a new way to do this in conf.d but I put the domainname is /etc/dnsdomainname, /etc/domainname and /etc/nisdomainname. Also make sure the /etc/hosts entry is correct with both an fqdn and a short version:

niffs · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 4:56 am Post subject:

didnt work... oh well...
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niffs · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 4:56 am Post subject:

didnt work... oh well...
Um.... I have a dialup connection and my IP changes each time I connect, what should I put in /etc/hosts?
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niffs · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:02 am Post subject:

Oh, how stupid of me! should of done a google search first!

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papal_authority · Veteran Joined: 31 Mar 2004 Posts: 1823 Location: Canada

Yaargh I didn't know you used DHCP. I should have asked. You'll probably want to read this easy HOWTO.
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niffs · Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 5:06 am Post subject:

Hmm... Ill get back on that.
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niffs · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 5:34 am Post subject:

Well, that worked! Thanks!
I think my hosts file was broken...
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