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MTUser2007
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 Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 9:06 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] Another boot error to fix: Hostname? - Beginner |
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In trying to learn as much and as fast as I can, to take care of the Gentoo server I inherited, I scrolled through the messages as Gentoo boots up. I see the following:
You should stop using /etc/hostname and use /etc/conf.d/hostname
What does this mean? and how do I fix it?
PS. I love what I learn here. THANK YOU. I was always root before. From reading here, I see that is bad thing. Well I managed to add a user. I could not su to root, but I fixed this with the FAQ SA2 by adding myself to the wheel group and fixed the permissions in root!
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OnlyTux
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| Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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Hello,
if you want to learn very fast, one of the best things to do is to read the Gentoo official documentation. In this case, I suggest this chapter of the installation manual.
Have a look at the other documents, too. For example the ones that deal with portage.
Cheers
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MTUser2007
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| Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 9:38 pm Post subject: |
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I had a look in /etc/hostname and found the machine's name "gentoo". I also looked in /etc/conf.d/hostname and found HOSTNAME = "gentoo"
So does this mean that I should delete the file /etc/hostname or remove the word gentoo from it instead.
On your suggestion, I did read the chapter 8 you referenced, the first part about a network. Thank you. It looks to me that /etc/conf.d/hostname is set up correctly, but that does not tell me what to do with /etc/hostname.
Please could I get advice about this? Thanks. |
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cjubon
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| Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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| MTUser2007 wrote: | You should stop using /etc/hostname and use /etc/conf.d/hostname
What does this mean? and how do I fix it? |
It means that you should stop using /etc/hostname and use /etc/conf.d/hostname instead  . Your Gentoo box has a hostname, doesn't it? It appears on your command line prompt, usually like this: On many Linux distros, that hostname is expected to be found in the file /etc/hostname. This was the case on Gentoo, too, but it is now deprecated. The preferred and future proof style is now to have the hostname in /etc/conf.d/hostname.
As root, just do | Code: | # mv /etc/hostname /etc/conf.d/hostname
# /etc/init.d/hostname restart |
The message should disappear.
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cjubon
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| Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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Ooops, you seem to have posted while I was writing. Yes, you can savely remove /etc/hostneme. If you run /etc/init.d/hostname after that, you can verify that everything is okay: actually, it's that init-script that outputted the message.
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MTUser2007
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| Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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| thanks for the help. I am all set now. |
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