Have you checked /etc/hostname?  Are you running bind?

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On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Rick Barter wrote:
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> I set my hostname to something other than localhost.  I made the
> change in my /etc/hosts, and /etc/sysconfig/network files.
> 
> After this I started getting email to root@localhost.localdomain
> telling me that there were errors rotating httpd/access_log log files.
> 
> 
> Some helpful folks from this list helped me with different remedies,
> but it turned out that httpd was not running.  The reason for this was
> that it couldn't determine the hostname when it tried to start during
> reboot.
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> /**
>  * Questions
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> 
> I obviously didn't do something correctly when changing the hostname.
> What files do I need to change in order to successfully change my
> hostname to something other than localhost.localdomain?
> 
> Thanks for any help you can give,
> 
> Rick Barter
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