Doh! - hostname invalid

[daviesjpuk]

When I installed AVlinux 4 to my hard disk, I managed to set an invalid hostname - the result was that /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts were set correctly, but that the hostname was not actually set (because, I think, the hostname command in /etc/init.d/hostname.sh failed at startup).

There should probably be  a check for a valid hostname (A-Z,a-z,0-9,-)for this in the install/setup script.

 

[fragadelic]

What exactly did you use that was an invalid hostname?