How to change hostname in FC3

Joel Jaeggli joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu
Fri Dec 10 03:18:36 UTC 2004


On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Thomas Cameron wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 18:38 -0800, Johnny Smith wrote:
>> I have a Dell Laptop on which I have installed FC3.
>>
>> when I installed it I either missed the gui for entry
>> of the desired hostname... or ?
>>

<SNIP>

>> How can I make  new hostname permanent?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Johnny
>
> As root, launch system-config-network, then make the hostname change on
> the DNS tab.

  or edit /etc/sysconfig/network

and set

HOSTNAME=

to whatever you want.

> Thomas
>
>

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