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Super Code Monkey

1 Sep 2005 1 Sep '05

17:26

How do you change the machine name in SuSE 9.1? I looked through Yasy but couldn't figure out where it is. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance ------- Code Monkey (recently demoted from Super Code Monkey) Whoa whoa WHOA whoa whoa Whoa whoa whoa WHOA whoa whoa... this is not my Batman cup ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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GATE Simulation

1 Sep 1 Sep

17:30

New subject: [SLE] change machine name in SuSE 9.1

On Thursday 01 September 2005 13:26, Super Code Monkey wrote:

How do you change the machine name in SuSE 9.1? I looked through Yasy but couldn't figure out where it is.

Try looking where the network card is configured in YAST. Peter

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Jos van Kan

18:20

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GATE Simulation wrote:

On Thursday 01 September 2005 13:26, Super Code Monkey wrote:

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How do you change the machine name in SuSE 9.1? I looked through Yasy but couldn't figure out where it is.

Try looking where the network card is configured in YAST.

Peter

No, not there. Yast>Network Services>DNS and Hostname -- Jos van Kan www.josvankan.tk

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Patrick Shanahan

18:26

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* Jos van Kan [09-01-05 13:21]:

No, not there. Yast>Network Services>DNS and Hostname

It *is* possible in _both_ places. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery

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Jos van Kan

18:37

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Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Jos van Kan [09-01-05 13:21]:

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No, not there. Yast>Network Services>DNS and Hostname

It *is* possible in _both_ places.

(Slapping head) Of course! There's always more than one way. :-) -- Jos van Kan www.josvankan.tk

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Anders Johansson

19:10

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On Thursday 01 September 2005 20:37, Jos van Kan wrote:

(Slapping head) Of course! There's always more than one way. :-)

It's actually the same way, just two routes to get there. "yast2 dns" would be a third, more direct one

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Carl William Spitzer IV

2 Sep 2 Sep

03:54

New subject: [SLE] change machine name in SuSE 9.1

On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 20:37 +0200, Jos van Kan wrote:

Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Jos van Kan [09-01-05 13:21]:

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No, not there. Yast>Network Services>DNS and Hostname

It *is* possible in _both_ places.

(Slapping head) Of course! There's always more than one way. :-)

There is usually six ways to do anything in linux. Including manually with vi if your into pain and extensive searching. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/

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Frank Bax

18:51

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At 11:54 PM 9/1/05, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

There is usually six ways to do anything in linux. Including manually with vi if your into pain and extensive searching.

Which is worse: searching text files, or searching menus?

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Carl William Spitzer IV

6 Sep 6 Sep

03:30

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On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 14:51 -0400, Frank Bax wrote:

At 11:54 PM 9/1/05, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

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There is usually six ways to do anything in linux. Including manually with vi if your into pain and extensive searching.

Which is worse: searching text files, or searching menus?

Searching for the text files. Fortunately the main ones fstab , xorg.conf are well known. The rest are not as important in that they relate to specific programs. Most config files are handled by their respective programs and you do not need to hack. But these two I mention have at times much need of hacking. I have legacy dos programs and the automatic install does not recognize the partitions correctly. Xorg Conf needs special hacking for my mouse with a trackball middle button for horizontal and vertical scrolling. So start with these two config files and learn the basics of reading them. You can leave the rest for later. -- _______ _______ _______ __ / ____\ \ / / ____|_ _\ \ / / | | \ \ /\ / / (___ | | \ \ / / | | \ \/ \/ / \___ \ | | \ \/ / | |____ \ /\ / ____) |_| |_ \ / \_____| \/ \/ |_____/|_____| \/ | \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\ | \ / | \ || | X |__/| || |( `--. |__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/

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Jerry Feldman

13:39

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On Monday 05 September 2005 11:30 pm, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:

The rest are not as important in that they relate to specific programs (Referring to config files). FWIW: I think it is not so important that new users learn the config files right away because YaST does most of it, but as one gets more experienced, one should learn where most of them are and what they do, because they tend to be in the same (or similar) places in all Linux and Unix systems. Such as: /etc/resolv.conf Name servers /etc/samba Directory where smb.config and other related files are /etc/hosts Names of hosts local to the system you are on. /etc/ntp.conf Configure time servers if you run the ntpd daemon /etc/aliases Mail aliases /etc/sendmail.cf Send mail configiration of you run sendmail /etc/postfix Directory containing postfix configuration files. /etc/httpd Directory containing apache configuration files.

/etc/sysconfig Directory containing additional system configuration files. This is used by YaST extensively. The one thing that all of the config files have in common is that they are plain text files, and if you are unable to set your configuration properly through YaST (or another graphical system management tool), the underlying config files are almost always going to be there for you to set. -- Jerry Feldman Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9

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GATE Simulation
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