hostname

[azeem ahmad]

hi list
i set the hostname using the command
hostname
but when i restart i gets back to the old hostname
how can i change it permanently
Regards
Azeem

[Paul Howarth]

azeem ahmad wrote:
>  hi list
>  i set the hostname using the command
>  hostname
>  but when i restart i gets back to the old hostname
>  how can i change it permanently 
Edit /etc/sysconfig/network

Paul.

[John Summerfield]

azeem ahmad wrote:
>  hi list
>  i set the hostname using the command
>  hostname
>  but when i restart i gets back to the old hostname
>  how can i change it permanently
>  Regards
>  Azeem 
This is more general than other answers I've seen, it's how I find stuff.
sudo find /etc -type f -print0 | sudo xargs -0 grep -H $HOSTNAME

You need to be root because some of the directories are forbidden to 
mere mortals.





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[Chris Norman]

In /etc/hosts?

Just a thought.

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azeem ahmad wrote:
>  hi list
>  i set the hostname using the command
>  hostname
>  but when i restart i gets back to the old hostname
>  how can i change it permanently
>  Regards
>  Azeem 
This is more general than other answers I've seen, it's how I find stuff.
sudo find /etc -type f -print0 | sudo xargs -0 grep -H $HOSTNAME

You need to be root because some of the directories are forbidden to 
mere mortals.





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[Levent Duymus]

# vi  /etc/sysconfig/network
then change the value of HOSTNAME variable.
Chris Norman wrote:

> In /etc/hosts?
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Chris Norman
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> From: "John Summerfied" <debian(a)herakles.homelinux.org&gt;
> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list(a)redhat.com&gt;
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 9:25 PM
> Subject: Re: hostname
>
>
> azeem ahmad wrote:
>   
>
> >hi list
> >i set the hostname using the command
> >hostname
> >but when i restart i gets back to the old hostname
> >how can i change it permanently
> >Regards
> >Azeem
> >    
> >
>
> This is more general than other answers I've seen, it's how I find stuff.
> sudo find /etc -type f -print0 | sudo xargs -0 grep -H $HOSTNAME
>
> You need to be root because some of the directories are forbidden to 
> mere mortals.
>
>
>
>
>
>   
>

[John Summerfield]

Chris Norman wrote:
>  In /etc/hosts?
>  
>  Just a thought. 
Not your best. Did you test it, or are you just guessing?

Please, folk, if you can offer good advice or even an educated guess, 
that's fine, but this is so wrong....

It's possible (though not often desirable) to have a host name that has 
  nothing to do with network addressability. Remember, it's really the 
_network interface_ that has a network address, and it's common for 
computers to have more than one network address and more than one 
network host name,

For example, most computers answer to the name "localhost."
try this:
ping -c4 localhost



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