setting host name
geo
geo at altamira.vaslui.rdsnet.ro
Thu Nov 13 09:16:04 UTC 2003
see /etc/sysconfig/network
and /etc/hosts
you will understant from there what you have to do.
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 10:43, Don wrote:
> I have FC1 installed on two machines and I use ssh to log on from one to
> the other ...
>
> in the command window, each prompt is [don at localhost don]
>
> How can I name each machine so the prompt will identify the machine I'm
> on?
>
> I tried using the hostname command, but that didn't seem to work as I
> wanted.
>
> Logged on as root I entered: hostname natasha
> and the command appeared to work.... but then when I tried to start a
> console/terminal session, no window was displayed... I restarted the
> machine (shutdown -r now) and things reverted to the way they were... I
> could start a terminal window again, but again, the prompt says
> localhost.
>
> Any suggestions, or have I happened onto a bug?
>
> Thanks,
> Don
>
>
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