Re: [ILUG] hostname

From: John P. Looney (john at domain antefacto.com)
Date: Tue 12 Jun 2001 - 13:23:58 IST

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On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 01:06:33PM +0100, James Cooper mentioned:
> How do i change my hostname?
> I have a non-networked redhat 6.1 pc. I tried changing the contents of the
> /etc/HOSTNAME file but it keeps being changed back to
> localhost.localdomain. I don't have the netcfg program installed as i dont
> need it. What to do?

It uses /etc/sysconfig/network to store the hostname.

Kate

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