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Re: Got a machine name problem

From Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Got a machine name problem
Date 2021-02-24 03:30 +0100
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On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 19:36 David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:

> On Tue 23 Feb 2021 at 20:05:11 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Tuesday 23 February 2021 14:29:01 Tom Browder wrote:

...

> > > I also edit /etc/hosts and make the first couple of lines look like
> > > this:
> > >
> > >     127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain.com   localhost
> > >     127.0.1.1 TLM.geneslinuxbox.net        TLM


David, you got me. I put those lines in years ago (on some person's
recommendation), while I was still running pre-Debian 4 (probably Redhat in
the box days).

It works and that's all I can say.

Best,

-Tom

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Got a machine name problem Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-02-23 19:00 +0100
  Re: Got a machine name problem Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-02-23 19:10 +0100
  Re: Got a machine name problem Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2021-02-23 20:30 +0100
    Re: Got a machine name problem "James B" <portoteacher80@fastmail.com> - 2021-02-24 01:30 +0100
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      Re: Got a machine name problem Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-02-24 02:30 +0100
        Re: Got a machine name problem <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-02-24 09:40 +0100
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            Re: Got a machine name problem Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-02-24 16:20 +0100
          Re: Got a machine name problem Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-02-24 12:20 +0100
            Re: Got a machine name problem Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-02-24 14:50 +0100
              Re: Got a machine name problem Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2021-02-24 15:00 +0100
                Re: Got a machine name problem Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-02-24 15:20 +0100
                Re: Got a machine name problem Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2021-02-24 15:30 +0100
              Re: Got a machine name problem Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-02-24 18:30 +0100
                Re: Got a machine name problem Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-02-24 19:00 +0100
                Re: Got a machine name problem IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> - 2021-02-24 19:20 +0100
                Re: Got a machine name problem Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2021-02-24 19:00 +0100
    Re: Got a machine name problem Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-02-24 02:10 +0100
      Re: Got a machine name problem David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-02-24 02:40 +0100
        Re: Got a machine name problem Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> - 2021-02-24 03:30 +0100
        Re: Got a machine name problem Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-02-24 04:30 +0100
      Re: Got a machine name problem Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-02-24 06:00 +0100
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  Re: Got a machine name problem David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2021-02-24 03:00 +0100
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  Re: Got a machine name problem "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-02-24 12:20 +0100
    Re: Got a machine name problem Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-02-24 12:30 +0100

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