On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 18:38 -0800, Johnny Smith wrote: > I have a Dell Laptop on which I have installed FC3. > > when I installed it I either missed the gui for entry > of the desired hostname... or ? > > I have later added profiles for a wlan card and a > separate lan-ethernet card. > > The boot up is slower than usual and I get a message > that I don't have a proper hostname and "X" complains > loudly. > > on the splash screen the hostname shows up as > 'localhost.localdomain' > > However when I do 'hostname newhostname' it only holds > it til I reboot and reverts to > localhost.localdomain.... > > Curiously I am unable to place anything in my > /etc/hosts file... if I do it disappears on reboot. > > Could these problems be related > > How can I make new hostname permanent? > > Thanks in advance > > Johnny As root, launch system-config-network, then make the hostname change on the DNS tab. Thomas
