computer "forgot" its name

[Jurvis LaSalle]

On Dec 7, 2004, at 3:30 PM, Marty Landman wrote:

> At 01:59 PM 12/7/2004, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
>> On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Marty Landman wrote:
>>
>> > I just had a power outage in my office and now my RH9 box which 
>> runs a
>> > samba server is reporting its name on my intranet as localhost 
>> rather than
>> > penguin. What should I be looking at to fix this?
>> >
>> Look at /etc/sysconfig/network.  There should be an entry that starts 
>> with
>> HOSTNAME=
>
> Thanks, did the trick of course. BTW, did I have a better alternative 
> than rebooting to to implement the change?
>
> Marty
>

Of course- this is Linux.  As root:
#hostname <newhostname>

hth,
Jurvis LaSalle