You can create the HOSTNAME file & give it the following permission -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8 Nov 2 10:12 /etc/HOSTNAME
This file stores your system's host name, your system's fully qualified domain name -FQDN, such as gary.yourdomain.com After making the relavant changes in the config files you can as root do the following /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart This should restart your network, by doing this you wont have to reboot your machine. -Rupesh ----- Original Message ----- From: "gary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 3:27 PM Subject: Re: net config file? > Thanks all... > > I can't find this file /etc/HOSTNAME in one of my machine, it is > important??? > Once I update the following files, do I need to restart certain services? > what are the services need to restart? or do i need to reboot? > > /etc/HOSTNAME > /etc/sysconfig/network > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 > > rdgs, > gary > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rupesh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 1:53 PM > Subject: Re: net config file? > > > > In RH you can run the utility "setup" (minus quotes) as root & directly > > configure your network, besides > > the files are stored in /etc directory: > > > > /etc/HOSTNAME ## For hostname > > /etc/sysconfig/ ## For ip, gateway, etc. > > > > -Rupesh > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "gary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 11:14 AM > > > > > > > Dear all, > > > > > > Where is the network config file in RH where can set for ip, hostname > and > > > etc... _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
