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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers edit /etc/hosts to show mypc in who Post 30940 by yls177 on Tuesday 29th of October 2002 08:29:46 PM
Old 10-29-2002
1 )mypc is actual host or remote box?
>> actual host is the server which we telnet to? if yes, then mypc is a remote box. mypc is a pc which i am working from my desk to telnet to the actual host say myhost.

so from mypc, i type telnet myhost, then issue a who -uH, and saw the below

123.45.12.55 otherpc BUT

i have edit the /etc/hosts to

123.45.12.55 mypc

so i should see 123.45.12.55 mypc when i issue a who -uH instead of otherpc


2) oops, forget to inform u guys the os version, so after uname -a, i get the below

AIX myhost 3 4 <think this entry is the serial no>



TO livinfree

My guess is that he's either at a different PC, or uses DHCP - if your IP address changes, /etc/hosts doesn't know that...

1) i guess u are right that u said "he's at a different PC" on the assumption that i am doing a telnet to the host (so this is called remote?)

2) now, i dont have a single idea on this DHCP. there is no entry when i do a man DHCP so basically i dont understand the statement "your ip adderss changes, /etc/hosts doesnt know that"
yls177
 

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cdbs-edit-patch

CDBS-EDIT-PATCH(1)						CDBS Documentation						CDBS-EDIT-PATCH(1)

NAME

       cdbs-edit-patch - create or edit a CDBS simple-patchsys.mk patch

SYNOPSIS

       cdbs-edit-patch patchname

DESCRIPTION

       cdbs-edit-patch	creates  or edits patches for use by the CDBS simple-patchsys.mk patch system.	For more information about CDBS please see
       the documentation under /usr/share/doc/cdbs/.

       When patchname exists, cdbs-edit-patch will set up a temporary working source tree, apply all patches up to and including patchname in lex-
       icographic  order,  and	spawn  an  interactive shell for the developer.  The developer can then edit files in this working tree.  When the
       developer is done and exits the shell, cdbs-edit-patch updates patchname to reflect the changes made.  To abort the process from the inter-
       active shell, exit with a nonzero exit value.

       When patchname does not exist, cdbs-edit-patch will assume that a new patch should be created.  As with the above scenario, cdbs-edit-patch
       will first create a temporary working source tree and apply all patches up to the new patch in lexicographic  order.   When  the  shell	is
       quit, cdbs-edit-patch will create patchname.

AUTHOR

       CDBS  was  written  by Colin Walters and others.  cdbs-edit-patch was written by Martin Pitt.  This manual page was written by Peter Eisen-
       traut based on the dpatch-edit-patch(1) manual page.

SEE ALSO

       CDBS documentation in /usr/share/doc/cdbs/, /usr/share/cdbs/1/rules/simple-patchsys.mk, dpatch-edit-patch(1), quilt(1)

Debian								    5 Feb 2006							CDBS-EDIT-PATCH(1)
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