changing host and domain name?

blackzone · 09-09-2006, 01:39 AM

my hostname/domainname is currently localhost/localdomain. How do I change that?

musicman_ace · 09-09-2006, 01:52 AM

It will vary slightly from distro to distro, but mine is in /etc/conf.d/hostname and /etc/conf.d/dnsdomainname for gentoo
verify that /etc/hosts has the entry

127.0.0.1 hostname

NexusProx · 09-10-2006, 09:10 AM

Buddy, thats something that changes from one distro to another. I always do this:

hostname "new.name.here" //without the ""
and then I go to /etc/hosts an change the line that mucicman_ace say to you

RedCharlie · 09-30-2006, 01:21 PM

on fedora core, the hostname command won't do it permanently (goes away after reboot).

Try editing /etc/sysconfig/network