Changing Hostname

[Clifford Snow]

On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 12:54, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am Sa, den 17.04.2004 schrieb Clifford Snow um 21:05:
> 
> > Everything is working, however, when logging back into Gnome, I received
> > an error message stating that Gnome could not fine the oldhost name. 
> > Once logged in everything seems to work.  
> 
> That is normal. So it is advised not to change the hostname while
> X/Gnome/KDE is running.
> 
> > My question is, how do you update the hostname gnome stores?  
> > 
> > Also, is there a command that can be run to restart X?  I've built a
> > script to change the hostname and would like to eliminate having the
> > user restart X.
> 
> Why the hell do you need to change the hostname often?

Actually I don't but will need to change it in near future.  A script
gives me the ability to make the change without having to remember all
of the steps.  It also gives me the ability to change it back easily if
it doesn't work.

-- 
Clifford Snow
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