You can set the hostname in /etc/sysconfig/network file.
This is just an example :
NETWORKING=yes
FORWARD_IPV4="yes"
HOSTNAME="liis"
DOMAINNAME="sorosis.ro"
GATEWAY=""
GATEWAYDEV=""
IPX="no"
Ionut.
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On Wed, 17 May 2000, Antony Stace wrote:
> Hi Folks
>
> Where do I define the name of my machine. Ie using the uname -n command
> I get a name of localhost.localdomain, ie
>
> #uname -n
> localhost.localdomain
>
> I have added an entry in the hosts table, ie
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
> 192.168.1.56 grover
>
> but it doesn't seem to pick up the name grover, where should I be
> setting this name??
>
> Cheers
>
> Tony
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Tony
>
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