Setting hostname

[Thomas Cameron]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "cfk" <cfk at pacbell.net>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 4:01 PM
Subject: Setting hostname


>I have a number of systems that move around. They dont always stay on a
> particular domain and sometimes they are on no domain at all.
>
> I'm having a little problem understanding the setting of hostname in
> FedoraCore2. It seems to be a little different then RH8 or RH9.
>
> I have tried setting my needed hostname, say "testSystem3" into /etc/hosts 
> at
> the end of the 127.0.0.1 line. I have also tried creating a /etc/HOSTNAME
> file. Neither seems to work reliably.
>
> My current need is to identify several different xterms that are all 
> ssh'ed to
> different computers. Additionally, I have a Tcl/Tk script that depends on 
> the
> utility hostname returning something useful and settable.
>
> Charles

The hostname is set during boot from the file /etc/sysconfig/network

Thomas