Hostname won't stick

[Harry Putnam]

Michael Seney <michael_seney at yahoo.com> writes:

> Anyone ever have a problem with setting your hostname.
> Here is the deal, I dual boot w/ Windows XP which is
> ofcourse the first partition NTFS. Then there is a
> Fat32 Middle Partition and then my ext3 / a swap and
> /home which is ext3. For some reason it autonames my
> hostname upon installation gecko? I think Windows uses
> that? I wanted to make it something different and edit
> the /etc/hosts and made the 127.0.0.1    newhostname 
> localhost. Used #hostname newhostname. Restarted X
> server and it took until a reboot? Any ideas why it
> wants to be gecko and doesn't like any other hostnames
> I want to specify. * I just put FC3T2 on this system
> and previously ran Debian Sarge with the hostname I
> liked without a problem.

The command `hostname' is only temporary as you've noticed.

Set it permanently here:

/etc/sysconfig/network