<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=Windows-1252">
<META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=841172319-30112004>In
RedHat and the FC flavors, the hostname can be changed by editing
/etc/sysconfig/network</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=841172319-30112004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=841172319-30112004>Never
ever remove the localhost entry from the /etc/hosts file.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=841172319-30112004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=841172319-30112004>--Dennis</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=841172319-30112004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=841172319-30112004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=841172319-30112004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
<DIV align=left class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Jesse Jarzynka
[mailto:denisesballs@thecybersource.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, November 30,
2004 2:25 PM<BR><B>To:</B> nflug@nflug.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Host
name?<BR><B>Importance:</B> Low<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>That's crazy cuz I was
just having a problem with this. I was looking through a linux book and saw
that you can change the hostname by the command 'hostname' then after I did it
I had an error from the /etc/hosts complaining about the hostname. It didnt
change that file. The best way to change your hostname is to run neat and
change it in there I think. -Jesse<BR><BR>On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 13:39, Joe
wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE"><PRE><FONT color=#737373><I>I have /etc/hosts
bigbird@localhost tmp]$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
[bigbird@localhost tmp]$
Would it break anything if I changed "localhost" to another name?
Joe</I></FONT></PRE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>