How to set domainname permonently on RHEL?

Zhou, Jingchen jingchen at slac.stanford.edu
Fri Nov 16 19:33:37 UTC 2007


I know I can set it from the command line via "domainname my.domain", my question is how I can make it permanently (i.e., valid after reboot)?

Here is what I have:
- in /etc/hosts:
...
ip           xxx.my.domain xxx

- in /etc/resolv.conf
domain my.domain
search my.domain
....

- in /etc/sysconfig/network
HOSTNAME=xxx.my.domain

However, when I type "domainname", it returns "none", and when I type "hostname", it returns xxx.my.domain instead of xxx.

Am I missing any?

Thanks,
JC




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