Where is the computer network name set and stored ?

Darryl L. Pierce dpierce at redhat.com
Thu Sep 22 17:32:47 UTC 2011


On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 11:51:47PM -0600, linux guy wrote:
> For anyone still following this thread, using the hostname command to change
> the hostname does not result in a permanent change.

That's kind of a standard thing with Linux - very few commands (beyond
mkfs and similar commands) do permanently affect the system. Pretty much
the whole thing is configuration based so any change is going to
require editing a configuration file somewhere.

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