Setting my hostname

[Delilah]

Hey All,

How the heck do I set the hostname on my RedHat 7.1? I use "hostname Delilah" and still get "localhost" set after reboot. Am I missing something?

Thanks Much

[Bagpuss]

There is a file called hosts or something in the /etc directory, that has the local..... stuff in it maybe if u edit that it will stay. linuxconf also has a feature to let u change this i think :D

[Delilah]

Thanks,

I edited the /etc/hosts file last night to no avail. I'll give it another try and see what happens.

[bdg1983]

Are you changing the hostname as root?

If that doesn't work, then just edit /etc/HOSTNAME and make the change there.

[Delilah]

Yep, trying to edit as root. I'll try the /etc/HOSTNAME Thanks much

[lm72]

try as root using netcfg and set hostname that but editing the file /etc/HOSTNAME should have done it.


Regards,

Alex :)

[ 22 October 2001: Message edited by: lm72 ]

[bdg1983]

/etc/HOSTNAME is for your own hostname.

/etc/hosts - The static table lookup for host names

[lm72]

You are right !

Sorry my mistake :)

Alex

[subnet_rx]

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ and then edit the appropriate file for the device you connect with. In my case, ifcfg-eth0

DHCP_HOSTNAME=

[Delilah]

Thanks for the info everyone.