Comment 34 for bug 195308
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| Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote Re: [Bug 195308] Re: unable to resolve host | #34 |
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On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:02:26AM -0000, Scotty wrote:
> Strange, typing in:
> scotty@:~$ hostname
> returns nothing. A blank line. I originally had localhost as the
> 127.0.0.1 and changed it as per one of the suggested "fixes". Changing
> it back to localhost produces no positive results. Any idea how to
> change the blank return for a call of the hostname (as I am assuming
> that is part of the problem).
You can set your hostname by running 'sudo hostname scotty-laptop'. To fix
this permanently (i.e., across reboots), set this name in the /etc/hostname
file.