VDQ : machine names??

[Mike Wright]

Beartooth wrote:
> 	I know it's a Very Dumb Question; I just can't find a general 
> answer that works. 
> 
> 	I want to stop calling all the machines on my LAN 
> localhost.localdomain, and give them distinctive names. I have found two 
> or three ways of doing so; but they don't stick. 
> 
> 	The only way that really works, for me at least, is to think of 
> it (and be ready) while doing a fresh install. When anaconda asks me 
> whether to use dhcp, I can click on manual, type in a name, click back to 
> using dhcp, and that name lasts.
> 
> 	I'm not even sure now whether it's mere logging out and back in, 
> or just actual reboots that do it, but in a location subject to longer 
> power failures than the UPSs I can afford will ride out, I get enough 
> reboots, too (alas!).
> 
> 	One other way that I've tried is to use system-config-network, 
> and edit the configuration of eth0; but that seems to be little more than 
> a pacifier. I want something that shows up in the prompts, and that I can 
> use in ssh and scp, without having to look up IP numbers on the router 
> all the time -- especially since not all LAN machines are on one floor.
> 
> 	Clue, please? Pretty please?

Hi Beartooth,

I don't use dhcp so this answer may not apply; however, all of my
machines set their hostnames in /etc/sysconfig/network:

HOSTNAME=box1.example.com

hth,
:m)