Fedora core 2 and hostname

VIKAS B vikassep1984 at hotmail.com
Sat Jun 19 05:31:47 UTC 2004


Hi Brian,
  Yes there's an easy way of changing the hostname in FC2.
after Login just at command line enter 'hostname' to see what is the 
hostname seted there, if returns localhost then you have to change this in

1.  '/etc/sysconfig/network' edit this file and give hostname whatever you 
like in the line "hostname=" and then save this file and at the command line 
give the hostname command but now also you will get the same old host name 
as 'localhost' so set the hostname using command hostname (for eg: hostname 
vikas --  here hostname command will set the hostname as vikas, pls note 
that the name you are giving for the host name must be same as the hostname 
you have specified in '/etc/sysconfig/network' file.

2.  '/etc/hosts' edit this file and this file would look like
        " IPAddress   hostname  localhost.localdomain  localhost"
in the place of hostname give the name as you wish(in the example same as 
hostname given in /etc/sysconfig/network file and hostname setted at command 
line), and save this file

3. Now restart the NFS and Network service by using the command 'service nfs 
restart' and
'service network restart'

4. Restart your computer inorder to take effect the  changes you have done.

now onwards your hostname will be setted as you had given in the above 
steps.
(Be careful in following the above steps, because if you do the single 
mistake also it may cause your system problem in booting or functioning)

if further doubts send an email to me.

all the best.
regards
vikas

>From: Brian Akins <bakins at web.turner.com>
>Reply-To: Discussion list about Kickstart <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
>To: Discussion list about Kickstart <kickstart-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Fedora core 2 and hostname
>Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 12:30:55 -0400
>
>Is there an easy way to get the hostname in post in FC2.  hostname just 
>returns localhost
>
>I'm using dhcp.
>
>--
>Brian Akins
>Senior Systems Engineer
>CNN Internet Technologies
>
>
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