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Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 4:01 PM
Subject: Setting hostname
I have a number of systems that move around. They dont always stay on a particular domain and sometimes they are on no domain at all.
I'm having a little problem understanding the setting of hostname in FedoraCore2. It seems to be a little different then RH8 or RH9.
I have tried setting my needed hostname, say "testSystem3" into /etc/hosts at
the end of the 127.0.0.1 line. I have also tried creating a /etc/HOSTNAME
file. Neither seems to work reliably.
My current need is to identify several different xterms that are all ssh'ed to
different computers. Additionally, I have a Tcl/Tk script that depends on the
utility hostname returning something useful and settable.
Charles
The hostname is set during boot from the file /etc/sysconfig/network
Thomas
