Re: hostname

["Scott W. Petersen" <scooter wwa com>]

I thought the control-panel in X would change the hosts file for you.

Also, are there other places the host name needs to be defined?

Scott

At 08:41 AM 7/21/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi,
> I changed it in /etc/hosts and it worked. I now have a new host name.
>Talk to you later,
>Eric
>
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>>Hello all:
>>
>>I have a silly question.  Im running RHL 4.2 on a laptop and intend on
>>using it
>>as a stand alone machine.
>>
>>I want to change the localhost name to xxxx.  I used the hostname command
>>(hostname xxxx).  However although it returns hostname is xxxx when I
>>reboot it
>>returns to localhost.localdomain.  The session I used when typing the
>>hostname
>>command is in a text-mode session i.e., before typing startx.
>>
>>Because the above didnt work I thought I'd try it from Xwindows's
>>control-panel.
>>Here I just changed the name to xxx.yyyy under the name window.  It is not
>>clear
>>whether I should have also changed the localhost localhost.localdomain to
>>xxx
>>xxx.yyyy under the host window also.
>>
>>Can anybody give me a hand with this problem?
>>
>>
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