[lug] Using hostname

[steve at badcheese.com]

To do it in Fedora, just change /etc/sysconfig/network (HOSTNAME) and then 
run the "hostname" command - or reboot.

- Steve

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Bill Thoen wrote:

> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:37:53 -0600
> From: Bill Thoen <bthoen at gisnet.com>
> Reply-To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"
>     <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> To: "Boulder (Colorado) Linux Users Group -- General Mailing List"
>     <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> Subject: Re: [lug] Using hostname
> 
> 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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