I have ran into a problem whilst following a tutorial showing me how to set up a debian server the problem I have is configuring the network. Ok I have done this so far vi /etc/network/interfaces # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The primary network interface auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 'set to server static ip' netmask 255.255.255.0 network 'set to my home network' broadcast 'set' gateway 'set' Then restart your network: /etc/init.d/networking restart Then edit /etc/hosts. Make it look like this: vi /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.100 'set to domain and server name' # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts Its now asking me to run this command but when I try to nothing happens Now run echo 'my server address' > /etc/hostname /etc/init.d/hostname.sh start > > Then it says to run this command > > hostname > hostname -f hostname command displays the hostname but when I run hostname -f it says hostname look up failure. Is there any reason for this am I missing out a step? The tutoril I am following is the howtoforge one.
Yep same ip address but Im going to re-install and see if I get stuck at the same place again. Then I'll repoer back
in hostname put the 'hostname', not the ip .. # echo [hostname] > /etc/hostname but it's not effective until reboot.. so manually do also.. # hostname [hostname] Bye.. bajodel.
