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Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 5:01 pm Post subject: (prolly easy) Setting hostname

Hello! I know it's prolly easy, but i must've botched it somewhere. How do I set my Gentoo box's hostname? Like so i could 'ping BLAH' and get it, etc. THanks! -Matt

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Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2003 5:10 pm Post subject:

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hostname yourhostname
or edit /etc/hostname. Then, in /etc/hosts, add an entry similar to this:

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127.0.0.1 localhost yourhostname

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