Name of computer

[Globe Trotter]

Aha, for once I am useful in this group:


Post installation, the following is from a response posted to a previous query
from me in the RH9 days....

The responder was one josh:

edit /etc/sysconfig/network:
-(finn at suburbia)-(pts/2)-(09:09PM 07/25)-(err:0)-
-(~) % cat /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=suburbia

-josh

-- 
  Joshua Legbandt
  jtlegbandt_at_earthlink_dot_net


So, bottomline is you can change the HOSTNAME to whatever you want. If you
would like suburbia.stat.washington.edu and want to ssh into machines called
exurbia.stat.washington.edu by just typing ssh exurbia, you should put the
complete name as HOSTNAME=suburbia.stat.washington.edu

HTH and best wishes!




--- Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:

> Wojciech Komornicki wrote:
> 
> >I get my IP address from DHCP and so, according to the default
> >installation of FC4, my computer is named localhost.localdomain.  Can I
> >give my computer a different name and still get its IP address from
> >DHCP?
> >--
> >Wojciech Komornicki
> >
> >  
> >
> There are two different settings, one for the interface and another for 
> hostname.
> 
> During the installation process, there are screens to setup your host or 
> to allow the hostname to be setup manually. I always choose manually for 
> the hostname.
> For the interface, I set this up for dhcp and to activate at boot.
>  
> Post installation, I am not sure where to set it and which tools to 
> use.There have been discussions on this using editors on certain files 
> and using post-install configuration tools through the GUI.
> 
> Jim
> 
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