On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 12:40:10PM -0500, Sreekumar Kodakara wrote: > I want to set the name of a linux system. I edited the etc/hosts file > to include the name. The change gets reflected but I am not able to > ping the machine using the new name of the machine. It says hosts not > found. Is there anything else which I must do? Thanks for the help. There were at least two thread in the last two months covering this topic: http://archives2.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/2002-March/048707.html http://archives2.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/2002-April/049888.html -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020429/b41e9691/attachment.pgp