hostname

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Dec 29 16:49:40 UTC 2003


On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 09:35, jason pearl wrote:
> i am using gnome and when i do a hostname sesso2 it will make it my host
> name but then  when i open programs a ton of erroerx come up... i reboot
> and my hostname gets put back to local host... how can i set my hostname
> to sesso2 without a ton of errors and having to reboot?
---
yeah - that's an issue, changing hostname after X is running.

edit /etc/sysconfig/network and put the hostname there for permanence.
Probably a very good idea to make certain that the same hostname exists
in /etc/hosts too.

Craig





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