Thanks,
I will make sure that I make the changes that you suggest.
Cheers,
Robert Locke wrote:
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
