Change the host name

[William Anderson]

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Daniel Harrison wrote:
| Hi there,
|
| i've set up my box with the the name "hector", however recenetly i
| aquired a domain name, what i want to do is set the host name to be
| the fully qualified domain name hector.domain.name
|
| Surely this should be located in one place however it seems inapparant
| to me, where do i change this name?
|
| Cheers,
| Dan
|

Hi,

The hostname is set in the file /etc/sysconfig/network . look for the
line starting with HOSATNAME:

The GUI place to set this value is under the RedHat menu -> System
Settings -> Network. Select the profile that you which to use (if no
profiles are set up, you will find that you are using a default
profile), click on the DNS tab and enter the hostname there. Then select
File->Save to save the changes and exit. You will be prompted to restart
the network services to make the changes take effect.

I hope that this helps,

William


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