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Sunra	2007-08-02 , 00:32
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I have a nokia 770 with the 2007Hacker OS. I tried to change the hostname now I cannot use sudo gainroot I have no way of becoming root on the lpocal machine. I get the error sudo: unable to lookup via gethostbyname(). I can ssh into the nokia via ip addy as root but no local access as root.

How Can I fix this?

Thanx
SunRA

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Milhouse	2007-08-02 , 01:07
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Changing the hostname is not a good idea, lots of things fall apart. Set the hostname back to what it was originally.

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Sunra	2007-08-02 , 01:51
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Does anyone know what the default hostname is for the 2007hacker os?

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Milhouse	2007-08-02 , 03:02
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Try "Nokia-N800-48".

If you really want to change the hostname, you need to change it in both /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts.

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Sunra	2007-08-02 , 04:38
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Thanx for your help. I can now sudo gainroot but the hostname doesn't stay when I reboot. I've edited the /etc/hostname and the /etc/hosts files but still it doesn't stay. can you post your copies of these files so I can compare them. I don't know where my problem lies.

Thanx,

SunRA

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Milhouse	2007-08-02 , 14:22
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/etc/hostname

Code:

Nokia-N800-48

/etc/hosts

Code:

127.0.0.1 Nokia-N800-48 localhost

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
# (added automatically by netbase upgrade)

::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts