[ale] host name will not stay changed

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]

On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Greg wrote:

> I cannot change the hostname of a PC.  I have read all of the relevant man
> pages.  I am using RH 7.3 w/ all current updates.  When installed I used
> "localhost.localdomain" and I have uses "uname file01" to change it to
> file01 and "domain bruceg" to change it to "bruceg".  A "uname -a" shows
> that my changes took.  When I reboot my changes are lost.  I know this is
> silly, but I cannot get this simple change to take.  I am doing all as root,
> of course.
> 
> The first line in my /etc/hosts file is 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain
> localhost and is followed by the machines name that I want it to be
> 192.168.3.78 file01.bruceg  file01.
> 
<<snip>>

Because of the way RH is setup, you will need to edit a file in 
/etc/sysconfig/ as root. If memory serves, the file network, but don't 
hold me to closely on that.

Hope this helps.


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