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From: Gerhard.Moeller@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Gerhard Moeller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: hostname change. stupid question?
Keywords: next, hostname, localhost
Message-ID: <5938@uniol.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jun 91 16:04:42 GMT
References: <5925@uniol.UUCP> <1991Jun19.143643.19522@ni.umd.edu>
Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
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Hello everybody.
First, I want to thank all of you who replied for your help.

I still have some questions:

I changed the /etc/hostconfig as everyone would do, then the "hostname"
and "uuname -l" command worked properly. But I also wanted a NetInfo
entry.

So I changed the /:master > "localhost/local" to "myname/myname".
Then I also changed the />machine>localhost:name > "localhost" to
"myname" .

Everything's working fine, I even got the "served by" and "served"
messeges ok, also the NetManager-entry was set automatically.

Now I have two questions:
1.) 	was that what I have done ok?
2.) 	Should I change the />machine>localhost:serves > "./local" entry 
	as well? 

The last question is how to make the name of my machine appear in the
loginwindow. I know that this is possible, I just do not know how.
Editing the /usr/lib/NextStep/nextlogin.tiff has no effect at all. (As
one could have expected after loooking at it. It looks different than
the loginwindow actually does.)

			Thank you again for your help, Gerhard.
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