At 11:14 PM 1/15/2000 -0500, Robert Hoffman wrote:
>localhost is just the name for your loopback interface 127.0.0.1. Your
machine uses it to talk to itself. I don't know what good can come from
changing it. You can change your hostname by editing the etc/HOSTNAME file
and call your machine whatever you like... not need to kill the loopback.
Right. You can leave localhost in /etc/hosts and add a new entry for your
machines new name, like this:
[lesneste@tsunami lesneste]$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
193.168.254.12 tsunami
As for your broader question of making sure you change the name every place
it needs to be changed, this is going back a ways, but my sysadmin log from
Fall '98 shows I had to add the line HOSTNAME=machinename to
/etc/sysconfig/network, like this:
[lesneste@tsunami lesneste]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
FORWARD_IPV4=no
HOSTNAME=tsunami
GATEWAYDEV=
GATEWAY=
That file is executed as a script (by /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit) to define the
$HOSTNAME environment variable.
BTW, all of the above applies to RH5.1. YMMV. Hope that helps and good luck.
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