According to Sony Lloyd Ponton: While burning my CPU.
>
> Hi,
> In slackware I can change the host name of my machine in
> /etc/rc.d/rc.M..where can I find that name in redhat linux 4.2. Cause I was
Well actualy you cant change it in rc.M, what you may have done is changed
echo "darkstar.frop.org" > /etc/HOSTNAME
to your hostname, this will only work if you have no file called
/etc/HOSTNAME, the if statement 'if [ ! -r /etc/HOSTNAME ];' only echo's
darkstar.frop.org when the file /etc/HOSTNAME does not exsist.
You need to edit /etc/HOSTNAME.
The following statement in rc.M cuts any fields of the hostname after the
first dot. So the standard prompt you see on your screen would have 'Sony#'
dirived from Sony.Lloyd.org
> searching in vain for rc.M and coulndt not find it on
> my redhat 4.2 box.
>
You wont find it because its not there in redhat, if your machine is on a
local network or LAN, edit
/etc/sysconfig/network
HOSTNAME=
and edit /etc/HOSTNAME to reflect your hostname.
My_hostname.org
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Regards Richard.
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