local host name changing

Lonnie Cumberland lonnie at neenet.com
Sat Sep 11 20:05:00 UTC 2004


Thanks,

I will make sure that  I make the changes that you suggest.

Cheers,


Robert Locke wrote:

>On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 15:36, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello all,
>>
>>Here is a dumb question I guess, but I have a host name that I want to 
>>the localhost to but am not sure of all of the files that need to be 
>>changed?
>>
>>I do think that the /etc/hosts shold be changed but are there others as 
>>well?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Lonnie
>>
>>
>>    
>>
>The initial hostname is set in the file /etc/sysconfig/network.
>
>Be aware that the networking startup scripts may obtain the hostname
>from a DHCP server or DNS server (as a reverse lookup).
>
>If you set the name to something in /etc/sysconfig/network, it is
>probably a good idea to have that name appear in /etc/hosts (as you were
>thinking), to ensure that your machine knows how to find itself.
>
>HTH,
>
>--Rob
>
>
>  
>






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