On Monday, April 04, 2011 11:37:19 PM Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Terry, > > > Maybe my memory is faulty, but my recollection of doing this on > > earlier Unix systems, (like Solaris), is that the hostname went into > > the file called hostname (or similar) and that did it (after a > > reboot). > > Debian/Ubuntu still have that. > > $ cat /etc/hostname > orac > $ hostname > orac > $ hostname -f > orac > $ > > Note, the -f output is wrong here, I haven't got it to be correct yet > which is annoying as some programs, e.g. postfix, rightly expect it to > be a fully-qualified domain name (FQDN). > > Cheers, > Ralph. FC14 seems to use the /etc/sysconfig tree to hold this kind of info.... /etc/sysconfig/network:HOSTNAME=myhostname & /etc/rc.sysinit reads the sysconfig tree Regards Andy
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