| 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">  %general-entities;]><sect1 id="ch-scripts-hosts"><title>Creating the /etc/hosts file</title><?dbhtml filename="hosts.html"?><para>If a network card is not going to be configured, create the<filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file by running:</para><screen><userinput>cat > /etc/hosts << "EOF"# Begin /etc/hosts (no network card version)127.0.0.1 <replaceable>[<value of HOSTNAME>.example.org]</replaceable> <replaceable>[value of HOSTNAME]</replaceable> localhost# End /etc/hosts (no network card version)EOF</userinput></screen><para>If a network card is to be configured, create the <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file by running:</para><screen><userinput>cat > /etc/hosts << "EOF"# Begin /etc/hosts (network card version)127.0.0.1 localhost<replaceable>[192.168.1.1]</replaceable> <replaceable>[<value of HOSTNAME>.example.org]</replaceable> <replaceable>[value of HOSTNAME]</replaceable># End /etc/hosts (network card version)EOF</userinput></screen></sect1>
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