On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 12:40:10PM -0500, Sreekumar Kodakara wrote: > I want to set the name of a linux system. I edited the etc/hosts file to > include the name. The change gets reflected but I am not able to ping the > machine using the new name of the machine. It says hosts not found. > Is there anything else which I must do? 1. What Linux distribution are you using? 2. What is now the contents of /etc/hosts? 3. What networks does your computer belong to? florin -- "If it's not broken, let's fix it till it is." 41A9 2BDE 8E11 F1C5 87A6 03EE 34B3 E075 3B90 DFE4 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020429/f1a3ba63/attachment.pgp