[lug] Using hostname

[Hugh Brown]

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*
> 
> - Bill Thoen
> *


My experience with name changes on RH was:

1. do it from a tty
2. fix /etc/hosts (as noted already)
3. make sure gdm gets restarted (ctrl-alt-bksp at the gui login screen 
does that)

there's also bound to be a nifty gui tool to do it (maybe 
system-config-network), but you may get more than you want by using one 
of those tools (e.g. committing to use that tool for all future network 
changes).

Hugh