On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 09:35, jason pearl wrote: > i am using gnome and when i do a hostname sesso2 it will make it my host > name but then when i open programs a ton of erroerx come up... i reboot > and my hostname gets put back to local host... how can i set my hostname > to sesso2 without a ton of errors and having to reboot? --- yeah - that's an issue, changing hostname after X is running. edit /etc/sysconfig/network and put the hostname there for permanence. Probably a very good idea to make certain that the same hostname exists in /etc/hosts too. Craig