Changing Hostname
Aaron Konstam
akonstam at trinity.edu
Sat Apr 17 23:41:05 UTC 2004
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 12:05:24PM -0700, Clifford Snow wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 14:41, Taylor, ForrestX wrote:
> <snip>
> > You forgot step 0: xhost +localhost. The X server is no longer able to
> > send it's information to the original host name (since you changed it).
> > Restart X (Ctrl+Alt+Backspace) and you should be able to start a
> > browser.
>
> I made the suggested changes and it work. Thank you. To recap, I used
> the following steps:
> 1. xhost +newhostname
> 2. changed the hostname in /etc/sysconfig/network
> 3. changed the 127.0.0.1 entry in /etc/hosts to include the new host
> name
unless you are using dhcp this hosts file should contatin the ip and
hostname fo you machine.
> 4. restarted network services
> 5. restarted X using Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
>
> Everything is working, however, when logging back into Gnome, I received
> an error message stating that Gnome could not fine the oldhost name.
> Once logged in everything seems to work.
>
> My question is, how do you update the hostname gnome stores?
>
> Also, is there a command that can be run to restart X? I've built a
> script to change the hostname and would like to eliminate having the
> user restart X.
>
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