[IUJHJSDHE]

Well call me a newbie or total idiot if you want but how do you change the hostname and motd with mandrake.

I tryed modding the /etc/motd file dident work.

not sure what to try for hostname, should I just type hostname and the name in konsole or will it just come back on retstart?

[warpmoon]

use "man motd" and "man hostname" to get the details.

On my debian system, editing "/etc/motd" and "/etc/hostname" works just perfectly.

Remember that the motd-file is only read at *login*. Not every single time you open up a terminal window (xterm or whatever you prefer) as they do in Mac OS X....

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Btw, what's up with the nick?

[IUJHJSDHE]

Originally posted by warpmoon:
<STRONG>use "man motd" and "man hostname" to get the details.

On my debian system, editing "/etc/motd" and "/etc/hostname" works just perfectly.

Remember that the motd-file is only read at *login*. Not every single time you open up a terminal window (xterm or whatever you prefer) as they do in Mac OS X....

//
Btw, what's up with the nick?</STRONG>

I edited /etc/motd no effect, there was no file /etc/hostname that was the first thing I tryed.

And when I was registering I was doing sometign wrong and in the end I just ended up banging on the key board as a name.

But now I kind of like my name, took me a while to memorize it but

[Secret Vampire]

Mandrake is significantly unlike debian, at least from my experience. But, I think it comes with a tool called linuxconf, or something similar, that will let you make changes to the system...

[utidjian]

Originally posted by IUJHJSDHE:
<STRONG>

I edited /etc/motd no effect, there was no file /etc/hostname that was the first thing I tryed.

And when I was registering I was doing sometign wrong and in the end I just ended up banging on the key board as a name.

But now I kind of like my name, took me a while to memorize it but </STRONG>

To change it edit the /etc/sysconfig/network file. There is a line in that file

HOSTNAME="whatever"

change it to whatever you like. For it to take effect you need to restart networking and/or reboot. You should also edit your /etc/hosts file and add the same hostname to the line that looks like:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost whatever

For a motd: put some clever thing in your /etc/motd file then edit your
$HOME/.bashrc file and add the line:

cat /etc/motd

at the end of the file. If you want to make it universal... most default $HOME/.bashrc files call /etc/bashrc (if it exists)... so you can add the line:

cat /etc/motd

to the global /etc/bashrc file.

[IUJHJSDHE]

Originally posted by Secret Vampire:
<STRONG>Mandrake is significantly unlike debian, at least from my experience. But, I think it comes with a tool called linuxconf, or something similar, that will let you make changes to the system...</STRONG>

yep, found linuxconf.

That fixed my problem, Thank you

<font color = red> &lt;EDIT&gt;: Ahh but it now has errors on start up because that hostname is not the systems real hostname.
Is there any way to fix this? </font>

[ 05-16-2002: Message edited by: IUJHJSDHE ]

[Secret Vampire]

Originally posted by IUJHJSDHE:
<STRONG>

yep, found linuxconf.

That fixed my problem, Thank you

<font color = red> &lt;EDIT&gt;: Ahh but it now has errors on start up because that hostname is not the systems real hostname.
Is there any way to fix this? </font>

[ 05-16-2002: Message edited by: IUJHJSDHE ]</STRONG>

To answer that I'd need to see the errors...