Host name?

[Dennis Ruzeski]

In RedHat and the FC flavors, the hostname can be changed by editing /etc/sysconfig/network
 
Never ever remove the localhost entry from the /etc/hosts file.
 
--Dennis
 
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jesse Jarzynka [mailto:denisesballs at thecybersource.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 2:25 PM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: Host name?
Importance: Low


That's crazy cuz I was just having a problem with this. I was looking through a linux book and saw that you can change the hostname by the command 'hostname' then after I did it I had an error from the /etc/hosts complaining about the hostname. It didnt change that file. The best way to change your hostname is to run neat and change it in there I think. -Jesse

On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 13:39, Joe wrote: 

I have /etc/hosts



bigbird at localhost tmp]$ cat /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1               localhost

[bigbird at localhost tmp]$



Would it break anything if I changed "localhost" to another name?



Joe

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