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[ILUG] changing hostid in linux 7.2

[ILUG] changing hostid in linux 7.2

Conor Wynne conor at discuskeeping.com
Wed Dec 13 22:53:09 GMT 2006


My "bad" as Americans say, I misread your post :

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man2/sethostid.2.html

Sethostid my friend. And, no experience with it, but looks good non?

Regards
Conor. 


On 13/12/2006 22:46, "Conor Wynne" <conor at discuskeeping.com> wrote:

> On 13/12/2006 21:38, "Walter Faleiro" <curtorkar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Folks,
>> I have an application that runs tied with hostid of the system. Recently
>> reformatting the drive changed the hostid to 7f0100.
>> 
>> Is there anyway I can change the hostid in 7.2?
> 
> Sure, why not. Assuming you mean the hostname that is :
> 
> Edit /etc/sysconfig/network
> Change the hostname in there
> 
> In addition, you should change the name in /etc/hosts
> 
> Reboot to test and bobs you cross dressing auntie.
> 
>> I tried a few posts but unlike FreeBSD and Solaris there seems to be little
>> hope for me.
> 
> Dead easy my friend, dead easy.
> 
>> --Walter
> 
> Regards
> Conor. 
> 





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