Re: [aclug-L] Very confused computer

[Cheez-Czar <cabrubak@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 11 Sep 1998, Wayne White wrote:

> Anyway, here's what went on. Logged into a shell on onyx, my
> prompt was "[Wayne@localhost Wayne]"When I started. I ftp'd to 
> the Netscape site and got the file down to /var/tmp on onyx. At 
> that point I didn't know how to get it into my machine. I knew it 
> would involve the use of zmodem, but after that I was guessing. I 

When I was on southwind through and I d/l a file with lynx it gave me the
option to "download with zmodem" after chosing that it automatically
started d/l .



> tried several things that didn't work. Then I thought, hey,
> let's suspend minicom and see if we stay connected to onyx.

Why were you connected via minicom instead of ppp? If you were you could
ftp netscape directly from netscape's ftp site.





> I
> did. Then it had me by the short ones. I couldn't download the
> file. I couldn't escape onyx. I couldn't restart minicom. Well,
> you guessed it, the three finger fix. 

a better thing to try :

ps -x   #to find the pid of minicom     
kill -9 <pid>

if that didn't work do a 

shutdown -r now 

which will reboot your computer after shutting everything down correctly.
Not doing it that can hose a partition or worse.




During the reboot I heard 
> the modem drop the connection. When the reboot was done my
> prompt was "[Wayne@Southwind Wayne]$". I'm not sure if the "$"
> was in the original "localhost" prompt or not. My guess is that 
> when I suspended minicom I became like another terminal on onyx,
> so when I rebooted it came back to the last host it had known.
> 
> So, that's the story of how my Linux box became Southwind. Now,
> the question is, how do I once again become "localhost"? I know
> that if I were to reinstall Linux it would fix it. However, I
> would rather not do that. I am thinking that learning how to 
> change the name of your computer might be a good lesson, and I
> was never to fond of the appellation "localhost" anyway.

the name of your machine is in /etc/hostname so something like
echo 'WaynesWorld' > /etc/hostname should change it.

(of course you could bring up vi or some editor to change this, but allut
that takes to long :) )


> 
> Anyone care to offer some instruction on where I went wrong, 
> how to fix it and/or what I should have done instead?

We'll I've added my 2cents, but take it with a grain of salt, because I
can't even get my kernel to compile and boot.

Clint

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