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Former Member
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I'm having some issues with getting the device name on my linux box to be anything other than localhost.localdomain. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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BobCat13
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I had to edit my /etc/hosts file and put an entry before the 127.0.0.1 localhost line in that file. I wanted to use a static IP on my box so I added the line
192.168.0.75 Linux01 before the line with localhost and rebooted. Since then that box has show as Linux01 on WCG instead of localhost.localdomain I'm not sure what the line would be if you want to use dynamic IP on the box. |
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Hmmmm, I took a look at that file, and mine is formatted a little differently.
::1 localhost.localdomain local I wonder why this is such a complicated issue. |
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BobCat13
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Hmmmm, I took a look at that file, and mine is formatted a little differently. ::1 localhost.localdomain local Is that the only entry in the file? The ::1 entry is for IPv6 which I have as well, but it is listed after the IPv4 entries. You might want to check this page: http://www.wcgwiki.org/en/boinc/install_boinc_linux.cfm Scroll down to the section titled More Than One Linux Box? [Edit 1 times, last edit by BobCat13 at Mar 20, 2007 4:10:32 AM] |
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Former Member
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I added it...didn't help, but I believe that's because I'm using DHCP, and not static, that's what some people have been saying including you. Looks like I may not have a choice at this point :(
----------------------------------------The issue is this box is remote, and there were a couple of things with static that fedora asked me, namely the DNS Search Path, and I'm really not sure what to put for that. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Mar 20, 2007 8:14:16 AM] |
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Former Member
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Wow, you wouldn't believe this. So in Fedora, there is this optional option (haha) where you can supply a Hostname for DHCP. I did that, restarted linux and Boinc picked it up immediately. Thanks everyone for all the help tho, really appreciated it.
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Sekerob
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I had to edit my /etc/hosts file and put an entry before the 127.0.0.1 localhost line in that file. I wanted to use a static IP on my box so I added the line 192.168.0.75 Linux01 before the line with localhost and rebooted. Since then that box has show as Linux01 on WCG instead of localhost.localdomain I'm not sure what the line would be if you want to use dynamic IP on the box. Bolded the important bit mentioned in a full instruction over at Seti forum. The advice is to not to change the 127.0.0.1 name i.e. leave that as original localhost. Had wifi problem myself because of this, which is now also solved.
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