How does one permanently change hostname ?

[Satish Balay]

On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Kim Lux wrote:

> How and where is hostname set and how does one alter it ?

- add the name to /etc/sysconfig/network
HOSTNAME=foobar

- add the ip-addresss map to /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1       foobar

Satish