Changing Hostname

[Alexander Dalloz]

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?

Alexander


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