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.
-Robert Hoffman
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From: ">rick.barter@mindspring.com (Rick Barter)
Reply-To: ">rick.barter@mindspring.com
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 22:36:59 GMT
>/**
> * Linux Distribution
> */
>
>RedHat 5.2
>
>
>/**
> * Background information
> */
>
>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.
>
>/**
> * Questions
> */
>
>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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>/**
> * Rick Barter
> *
> * Atlanta, Georgia, USA
> */
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