Which file and directory contains the host name?

Tom Horsley horsley1953 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 20 12:34:15 UTC 2010


On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 05:51:16 -0600
Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:

> I think you are looking for /etc/sysconfig/network, specifically the
> HOSTNAME= line. This can be edited by root, or altered by root using the
> hostname command. The host and domain names may also have been added to
> your local /etc/hosts file.

One other place a hostname might appear:

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/igcfg-eth0

(or eth1, eth2, etc). If the interface is
configured for DHCP, there might be a
DHCP_HOSTNAME defined.


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