[K12OSN] server hostname problems
Rob Owens
rowens at ptd.net
Mon May 7 22:42:23 UTC 2007
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:33:26PM -0700, Dan Young wrote:
> Rob Owens wrote:
> > I have a CentOS 4 server that is properly recognized by the domain
> > controller, so I think I must have something that's not set right in
> > the K12LTSP machine. Can somebody point me to a list of steps to
> > take to properly set the hostname of my server? Command line is
> > fine, maybe even preferable.
>
> Add the hostname to the localhost line in /etc/hosts, set
> HOSTNAME=foo in /etc/sysconfig/network, then either reboot or do:
>
> hostname foo
>
> at a shell.
Thanks, I'll try it tomorrow. Just for clarification, does /etc/hosts
need the fully-qualified domain name, or just the first part? My
working CentOS 4 box only has the first part, like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost myservername
-Rob
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