> has anyone else found that hostname doesnt set correctly in 7.0 / 7.1
> either ?? I can't get it to work anyway ...
>> typing: "hostname thallophytic" sets it while the machine is running...
> but once i reboot it reverts back to localhost.localdomain
>> i manually editted /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts also but got the same
> result ...
As far as I know, the hostname is stored in
/etc/sysconfig/network
with a setting such as
HOSTNAME=thallophytic
Setting it on the command line will only change it for that session
- when it reboots, it will read the hostname from the above
file.
Regards,
Cormac.
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