Re: New Install

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Am So, den 21.12.2003 schrieb Philip Wyett um 06:57:
> On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 05:43, Krikket wrote:
> > I've recently switched over my laptop from SuSE 9.0 to Fedora Core 1.  So
> > far I like what I see.
> > 
> > Unfortunately for me, there are a few things that are different in the
> > distributions that have me stumped.  I'm hoping someone out there can lend
> > me a pointer or two...
> > 
> > 1>  Assign the machine name.  With SuSE, I could either change a setting
> > in YaST or edit /etc/HOSTNAME to set the machine name from "localhost" to
> > "serenity".  (Or anything else I wanted...)  This file doesn't appear to
> > exist with Fedora.  How do I set it?
> > 
> 
> You could have set this at install time, but see in /etc/hosts.

That is the wrong file to set the desired hostname. It is to be set in
/etc/sysconfig/network. In /etc/hosts you define only hostname lookups
for network use.

> Regards
> 
> Phil

Alexander


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