how to set hostname

[James Cooley]

Putting the info in /etc/hosts probably won't do what you expect.  Be sure
that you don't add the hostnames for your system on the 127.0.0.1 line,
because that will screw up a lot of programs, such as kadmin and krb5kdc
if you run kerberos.

Instead, edit the hostname in /etc/sysconfig/network and do a

service network restart

and your hostname will now be set globally.

--James Cooley



> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Muhammad Rizwan" <rizwan at nixpanel.com>
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> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 10:38 AM
> Subject: how to set hostname
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>
>> Hello
>>
>> How to set hostname of Red Hat box. I used "hostname NAME" but after
>> rebooting machine, i see the old hostname instead of new one.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
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> ssh or telnet to your box
> edit the follow file
>
> /etc/hosts
>
> Regards
> Rushan
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