>Sorry, that may have been a bit unclear. Too much caffeine, plus a
>tendency
>to forget that some of these questions aren't coming from work. :)
>Anyway, much more clearly, and with a solution for the original >poster:
>In /etc/hosts, never remove the 127.0.0.1/localhost entry, either in its
> entirety, or by changing localhost.
>In /etc/hosts, if you have already set up your machine to respond to >one
or
> more additional IP addresses, you may alias each of these IPs to >one or
> more hostnames.
>using the /usr/bin/hostname command, you may define one of these >names to
> be the default hostname. You may also use this command to >assign a
> default hostname that does not exist in /etc/hosts, but this is bad
> practice.
I think you're ALL a bit confused. Never remove the 127.0.0.1 entry, and
don't change the name.
The DEFAULT hostname is in /etc/sysconfig/network. Change it, and also add
it in /etc/host.
If you only change it in /etc/hosts, the machine will get confused.
Igmar
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