hostname

[Rick Stevens]

Harold E Vine III wrote:
> may seem a basic question, but...
> 
> i gave the command hostname foobar
> 
> when i rebooted, i was back to localhost.localdommain
> 
> how do i do this so that i can change the system name globally and make
> it stay?

Edit /etc/sysconfig/network and change the "HOSTNAME=" parameter to
what you want.
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