solved Re: [Techtalk] changing the name after the @ in your prompt

Emma Jane Hogbin emmajane at xtrinsic.com
Tue Jan 6 03:22:46 EST 2004


On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:06:25AM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> I thought this was going to be an easy change....but perhaps not. If I
> want to change the name of my machine (which is just a laptop connected
> directly to the internet), which files would I need to change?
> 	/etc/hosts
> 	/etc/hostname
> 	/etc/postfix/main.cf

As far as I can see these are the only files I needed to change. The
errors messages were a bit delayed, which is what confused me.

emma :)

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