On 02/28/2011 02:40 PM, Kai Heide wrote:
Hi all,

my hostname won't be set and I don't know why!


[root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/cmdline
ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_justice4all-lv_root
rd_LUKS_UUID=luks-d830f8fe-41d4-4fc7-837a-7a2c1520bbe8
rd_LVM_LV=vg_justice4all/lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_justice4all/lv_swap
rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16
KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=de-latin1-nodeadkeys rhgb quiet
hostname=justice

[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/hosts
192.168.2.112   noname  # Added by NetworkManager
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
::1     noname  localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6


If you edit

/etc/sysconfig/network

and edit the HOSTNAME to be what you want the hostname to be.

That's what I always do. but then, with SL6, I also edit /etc/hosts as well. I haven't gone through RedHat's documentation on what the official way is nowdays.
Troy
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