[plug] Hostname change

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:

> Not a major issue, but it is bothering me so I thought I'd ask.
> 
> I changed my server's hostname recently from "backinthe.ussr.net" to
> "terminus.net.au".  I had to change it in a few places.  When I do
> "hostname" now it tells me "terminus" which is correct.  I grep through /etc
> for "backinthe" and it doesn't come up anywhere.  However in my log files it
> still comes up as follows:
> 
> Feb 13 09:56:31 backinthe in.telnetd[18709]: refused connect from
> 212.177.241.169

restart the syslogd... It checks the hostname at startup and caches the
result.  Other daemons may be affected by the same issue.


Yours Tony.