On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:40:16 -0500, Jeffrey Laramie <suse-linux-e@trans-star.net> wrote:
On Monday 24 January 2005 13:17, Dumb Waiter wrote:
Hi,
My PC had a reasonable host name, "linux" I think it was. Then one gloomy day it somehow changed to "129". Now I am looking for information about how the host setting works in Suse 9.2; inspite of reading a wad of stuff and searching and oggling web postings I seem not to understand the basic concept of it and of the web settings related to it; like domain name 'site'.
If you can point me to a source of good overview & necessary details please do so. I'd be happiest if hit with terminology one would use for describing quantum physics to an exceptionally stupid rodent.
Oooh! Oooh! I know this one. Use the YaST configuration tool:
YaST->Network Services->Host Names -or- YaST->Network Devices->Network Card->Change->Edit
Select the "129" entry and edit it. If you're on a private network (or a standalone box) you can set the host name and domain name to anything you like. Enter something like "192.168.0.1", "myhost.mydomain", "myhost" in the fields. Save and your done.
Jeff
Jeff, Maybe you did not see it in my original posting (in the 'optional' part of my msg) but even though doing just what you told me to do DID change the host name in resp setting _in Yast_ and it remains changed there, the host name I get in KDE console _prompt_ still remains '129' and the _printenv_ command still prints HOSTNAME and HOST as being '129'. If I somehow have caused this persistence myself by the command 'export HOST/HOSTNAME=129 + allexport (which I did after my earlier modification trials halted my net connection) then how could I undo that 'exporting' so that changing the values in Yast would also change the host name in the KDE terminal prompt? I am still quite confused about all the places where Suse saves these parameters, what is the preference of hierarchy among them, and how one could expunge the heretical host names for good and replace them with saner ones. Should you bump into a tutorial on these things, please let me know. Information on editing this file and that file doesn't reveal the big picture, that I should have, before I try to couple my two Suse machines in a harmonious home network. And maybe a WinME Pc - or maybe not. Mike