[lug] Using hostname
Bill Thoen
bthoen at gisnet.com
Tue Mar 27 17:37:53 MDT 2007
Michael J. Hammel wrote:
> Hostname changes require a network restart. It may require a reboot,
> but I'm not positive of that. Also, assuming a reboot is not necessary,
> you need to logout of your GNOME session and then log back in. The
> current session has probably cached the hostname in your terminal prompt
> based on the original GDM login. New terminal windows inherit that
> setting and don't actually query the system for it.
>
That was it. Hostname doesn't require a reboot, but I had to log out of
my gnome session and log back in again. Then I could get a terminal
window sporting my new hostname in the prompt. I also added the new name
to /etc/hosts in front of localhost.localdomain. Them to make it
permanent, I edited /etc/sysconfig/network and changed the HOSTNAME
variable there to the same thing and rebooted. Everything came up
smelling like roses!
Thanks, folks!
- Bill Thoen
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