Ubuntu Linux dapper with full updates.

From what I can tell the system is named JUNIOR, but according to the S@H computer listing it's LOCALHOST. Is there an option that i'm missing here that is supposed make the system naming official?

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Ubuntu Linux dapper with full updates.

From what I can tell the system is named JUNIOR, but according to the S@H computer listing it's LOCALHOST. Is there an option that i'm missing here that is supposed make the system naming official?

Hello,
does 'hostname -f' show the right computer name?

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It could be, if your hostname is right set, as Desti posted, that there are wrong entries in the /etc/hosts and so the boinc client could not resolve the hostname correctly.
For example :
127.0.0.1 localhost HOSTNAME

Change HOSTNAME in the hostname you have named your computer


If you change it in :
127.0.0.1 localhost
IP_OF_THE_INTERFACE HOSTNAME

Change IP_OF_THE_INTERFACE in the example above in the ip address, you have assigned to your interface.
But the IP_OF_THE_INTERFACE depends how you connect to the outside. If you connecting with ehternet to a router, the example above may be right.

If you connecting with ppp (dialup with ISDN or modem) and get a dynamicly IP this change of the /etc/hosts should work :
127.0.0.0.1 HOSTNAME localhost

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Here is what is in my HOSTS file:

127.0.0.1 localhost JUNIOR
127.0.1.1 JUNIOR

The rest is nomenclature for IPv6 capable hosts.

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All of your WU's are belong to me now!

Here is what is in my HOSTS file:

127.0.0.1 localhost JUNIOR
127.0.1.1 JUNIOR

The rest is nomenclature for IPv6 capable hosts.

If you change the hosts to following it would work :
127.0.0.1 localhost
x.x.x.x JUNIOR
-> x.x.x. is the IP of the Interface you are going outside.

If your host made a reverse lookup to the only one IP (127.0.0.1), it get the localhost entry as first hostname, so the boinc client see "localhost" as hostname.

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Hmm, Can't seem to touch the HOSTS file.. It's write-locked and the properties says that i'm not the owner so I can't unlock it..

I guess I need the SUDO command to disable the write lock.

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All of your WU's are belong to me now!

Hmm, Can't seem to touch the HOSTS file.. It's write-locked and the properties says that i'm not the owner so I can't unlock it..

I guess I need the SUDO command to disable the write lock.

Yes, you need root permitsions to edit it. A "su - root" or a "sudo vi /etc/hosts" would help.

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