On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 09:37 -0500, Christian Convey wrote: > When I installed FC7, I let it use the installer's default hostname. > > I need to change it from a command line, but I can't find any file > under "/etc" that contains the string "new-host-2". > > In /etc/sysconfig/network, I have this: > HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain > > So does anyone know where that string "new-host-2" is coming from? Is > it just a default that the system will use until I alter > /etc/sysconfig/network to have a hostname other than > "localhost.localdomain"? ---- grep -r 'new-host-2' /etc/sysconfig most likely, if it's not in /etc/sysconfig/network it's going to be set in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (or ifcfg-eth1...) It's possible that the hostname will come from DHCP server but that is not usual. Craig
