[ale] Origins of Linux, do we care?

[James Sumners]

On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> ???
> I've not seen this behavior in any of the dozen or so centos7 systems I
> have deployed. The system must be rebooted after editing the /etc/hostname
> file as that is only read once at boot. Hostnamectl will change that file
> and also change the kernel param that stores the hostname. Additionally,
> you can use it to set a "pretty" name like "Fred's portable game blaster"
> complete with spaces and quotes. I don't know where the pretty name is
> stored but it persists across reboots.
>

All I can tell you is that I set it during my kickstart during
installation. After first boot, the setting is completely ignored.


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