I recently installed DEBIAN (unstable) in to a laptop. During the
install, I used "myhome.net" as the domain name. Now I am trying to
change this to a different domain name but I can't seem to find
how. Only place I see this domain is written is /etc/resolv.conf. I
edited this file but each time I reboot the laptop, it changes back to
"myhome.net". I did do "find" in /etc (and (/) and I can not find
anywhere else that has "myhome.net".

So, how is this "myhome.net" is keep coming back to my resolv.conf
after each boot? How can I chance the local domain name? I hope I do
not need to reinstall the whole system again.

Thanks.

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ad wrote:
> I recently installed DEBIAN (unstable) in to a laptop. During the
> install, I used "myhome.net" as the domain name. Now I am trying to
> change this to a different domain name but I can't seem to find
> how. Only place I see this domain is written is /etc/resolv.conf. I
> edited this file but each time I reboot the laptop, it changes back to
> "myhome.net". I did do "find" in /etc (and (/) and I can not find
> anywhere else that has "myhome.net".
>
> So, how is this "myhome.net" is keep coming back to my resolv.conf
> after each boot? How can I chance the local domain name? I hope I do
> not need to reinstall the whole system again.

Look in the following files:

/etc/hosts
/etc/resolv.conf
/etc/network/interfaces

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Paul Cupis wrote:

> ad wrote: 
>
> Look in the following files:
>
>   /etc/hosts
>   /etc/resolv.conf
>   /etc/network/interfaces

Actually, It's /etc/hostname.  Just change the name there.
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On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 12:22:15 -0400, Al Krieger wrote:

> Paul Cupis wrote:
> 
>
> Actually, It's /etc/hostname.  Just change the name there.

/etc/hosts has the following:
127.0.0.1 mylaptop locahost
and some ip6-* stuff


/etc/network/interfaces has no enty regarding to "myhome.net", so I don't
know what to change there.

/etc/hostname has:
mylaptop

and /etc/resolv.conf has:
search myhome.net
nameserver a.b.c.d

So I am still confused about what to change. Like I said before, I keep
changing the entry in /etc/resolv.conf but "myhome.net" keeps coming after
reboot.

Thanks.

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What about ?

# grep -r myhome\.net /etc

This may help you to find out the problem

Ken

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ad wrote:
> So I am still confused about what to change. Like I said before, I keep
> changing the entry in /etc/resolv.conf but "myhome.net" keeps coming after
> reboot.

Do you use DHCP?

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Al Krieger <me@home.myhouse.dom> wrote:
> Paul Cupis wrote: 
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>
> Actually, It's /etc/hostname.  Just change the name there.

Look at `/etc/sysctl.conf' too.  Then your hostname will be set sooner.
If you have a procps package installed, of course.

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Torvalds' goal for Linux is very simple: World Domination
(it's third person quote.)

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ad <as@no-span.org> writes:

> I recently installed DEBIAN (unstable) in to a laptop. During the
> install, I used "myhome.net" as the domain name. Now I am trying to
> change this to a different domain name but I can't seem to find
> how. Only place I see this domain is written is /etc/resolv.conf. I
> edited this file but each time I reboot the laptop, it changes back to
> "myhome.net". I did do "find" in /etc (and (/) and I can not find
> anywhere else that has "myhome.net".
>
> So, how is this "myhome.net" is keep coming back to my resolv.conf
> after each boot? How can I chance the local domain name? I hope I do
> not need to reinstall the whole system again.

Just launch base-config to redo what you did at install time.


Léo.

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