Re: Domain Name

[Anand Buddhdev <arb anand org>]

Ted Gervais wrote:

> I feel a little sheepish in asking this question on the list but what 
> the heck. Here it goes.
>
> I have RH8 running very well. Everything seems to be fine.  But I notice 
> that somehow I never set my hostname. Or at least, the hostname that 
> keeps appearing is 'localhost'.  Of course that appears in my /etc/hosts 
> file.
>
> I am sure everyone has a better host name than 'localhost'  and was 
> wondering about making a change here.  If I do make a change though, 
> will that screwup sendmail or the network etc..??
>
> Also, how does one make a change to another hostname?   And how is this 
> done permanently.

Edit /etc/sysconfig/network, and set your hostname there. It will be set 
correctly at every bootup then. For completenesses sake, also edit 
/etc/hosts, and change localhost.localdomain to your new hostname.

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Anand Buddhdev
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