..:: [ FC2 ] ::.. NON-CRITICAL config question.

[Mitch Wiedemann]

John Courie II wrote:

>Hey all, My name is john and I am brand new to linux. I can count the
>hours booted into linux in my fingers, but I got sold on the F/OSS ideal
>and I am going to make this work.
>
>I installed FC2 last night and when it resolves my hostname through eth0 
>it is some long ass nonsense that it gets dynamiclly from COMCAST.
>
>I want to change that to be a name I pick
>
>I looked through the BASH manual and through a few orielly books on tcpip,
>I googled and looked through some n00b forums, no luck...
>
>How do I configure my system to have a custom name that shows up on the
>prompt while still accepting and using the dynamic IP sent from comcast?
>
>I understand that there are considerably more critical issues that need to
>be adressed but I suspect that this question is trivial to many of you and
>can be anwsered easily.
>
>any help would be greatly appreciated.
>  
>
Hi and welcome to the wonderful (but sometimes crabby) world of Linux a 
la Fedora Core 2!

Try editing the following files:

/etc/sysconfig/network
/etc/hosts

Make sure that you set the host name the same in both!  You may need to 
reboot (gasp!) after making the changes to avoid problems.

-- 
Mitch Wiedemann
mc^2 Computer Consulting
mc2 at lightlink.com
http://www.lightlink.com/mc2