[lug] Using hostname

[Warren Sanders]

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Bill Thoen wrote:
> 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*

Not sure of THE proper way of doing this but you could always put this
in your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 but if your DHCP
server supplies this you could put it in /etc/rc.local I suppose.  Not
sure of your issue with not being able to open a new terminal tho.
You should still be able to do this regardless.

No this wasn't a dumb question!  Don't be so hard on yourself :-p

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Warren Sanders
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