changing 'hosts' to get my machine name ?

[Thomas Cameron]

William Case wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> This is an old stupid question but I am stuck nonetheless.  I have
> googled for several different ways but none work.
> 
> I have changed my /etc/hosts file to:
>  127.0.0.1 	CASE localhost.localdomain localhost
> 
> This is the same as from my F9 /etc backup.
> 
> CASE is the name of my machine.  None of my programs seems to recognize
> it except 'hostname' -s or -f.  The same problem with
> localhost.localdomain.  I have changed it manually before in earlier
> Fedora versions but now nothing seems to work.  If I remember correctly
> there where two files that needed changing.
> 
> I just installed F10 and must have missed Anaconda asking for my machine
> name.  
> 

Your hostname is set in /etc/sysconfig/network.  /etc/hosts is only for 
name resolution, although you should prbably set your hostname there as 
well.  You should use lower case for the hostname, some apps don't grok 
mixed or upper case.