On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 15:36, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > Hello all, > > Here is a dumb question I guess, but I have a host name that I want to > the localhost to but am not sure of all of the files that need to be > changed? > > I do think that the /etc/hosts shold be changed but are there others as > well? > > Thanks, > Lonnie > > The initial hostname is set in the file /etc/sysconfig/network. Be aware that the networking startup scripts may obtain the hostname from a DHCP server or DNS server (as a reverse lookup). If you set the name to something in /etc/sysconfig/network, it is probably a good idea to have that name appear in /etc/hosts (as you were thinking), to ensure that your machine knows how to find itself. HTH, --Rob
