[lug] Using hostname

[Bill Thoen]

I've got a Fedora Core 5 system, and I tried to change the system name 
using:

hostname new_name

When I did that it seemed to work (uname -a showed the new system name) 
but then when I tried to open another terminal window from the gnome 
gui, it wouldn't open. I had to change the name back to 
localhost.localdomain to get it to work again.

So how do I change the system name so that I can still open new terminal 
windows (with everything else also working as before) and I see 
bthoen at new_name$ as my prompt?

Or is this yet another thing that *is nicht fur gewerken by das *dumkopfen*

- Bill Thoen
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