Changing Host name help please

[Erich Carlson]

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 15:18 -0400, Jack Gates wrote:
> This is from my /etc/hosts file
> 
> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> # that require network functionality will fail.
> 127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain
> 
> What is the proper way to change this file so that:
> localhost.localdomain is replaced with something more useful for 
> identification of my FC5 box on my network?
> 
leave the 127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain
in the /etc/hosts file
add a line with
localip domainname

i.e. 192.168.1.1 printserver or 192.168.1.1 domain.com