what to do after an IP change

[William Hooper]

Lars E. Pettersson said:
> On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 14:26, William Hooper wrote:
> 
>>>> 127.0.0.1     my_hostname my_hostname.my_domain.tld localhost
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> No, do not do that, that is not correct. It may work, but it is not
>>> 
> the
>>> correct way to do it.
>> 
>> This is what Anaconda does if you put in a host name during the
>> install.
> 
> Sure about that?

Yep, just set up a FC2 machine yesterday.

> This is what anaconda put in my /etc/hosts on a test
> machine that I set up last week (Fedora Core 2), given a hostname during 
> install (can one give a hostname without also giving a IP-number?)

Yes, you can.

[snip]
> The main point I would like to stress is, do not remove
> "localhost.localdomain localhost" on the 127.0.0.1 line, I think you
> agree on that.

Yep.

-- 
William Hooper