[ale] setting the system name with potato.

Gary Maltzen maltzen at mm.com
Tue Oct 3 13:58:57 EDT 2000


FWIW: RH sets the name at boot from /etc/sysconfig/network



> I have just recently started using potato as the availablity of
> the previous debian release has dropped off. I have a little problem
> however. I set the system name in the /etc/hosts and the /etc/motd. but
> when I reboot, whala! it's back to the old system name. I know in Redhat
> you have the /etc/HOSTNAME file that it reads but I can't seem to find
> something like that on this debian box? Does anyone know?


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