Greetings,

My questions is this. It looks like i will have to redo my Mandrake box (groan). Now that i feel abit more confortable im curious about some things.

Host: Address 127.0.0.1 localhost.linix localhost localhost.localdomain
DNS Client :localhost

I found these in the DNS client and on the Nic. Is there a global place where i can change these names that will be refected throuout the system or are these the only places i should make the changes to my server?

Look in /etc/host file. Don't change the localhost part as that is required but you can change the .linix or .localdomain part.

If I change that in /etc/hosts it is not reflected in the redhat-config-network app!!

Does this mean that the redhat-config-network app does not read it's info from /etc/hosts?

I'm running whitebox (port of RHEL).

I would prefer to do this without having to rely on the GUI (trying hard to break that habbit) as I can get some xterm stuff running remotely (via ssh and cygwin) but would much much prefer to simply use command line.

help???

I am not familiar with redhat-config-network app but most of the time you get your hostname from the hostname command. The file /etc/hosts is not for assigning a hostname. It is usually for setting up your local lan. Because your ISP's dns server will not know that you have a computer on your lan called dadscomputer that has an ip of 192.168.0.2.

Redhat will also get these values from these files:

/etc/sysconfig/network
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX

Where X is the number of your nic, if you have only one, it'll most likely be ifcfg-eth0

Thanks. I've been using the :-

/etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/hosts
/etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/network

files to edit the name - is this ok or is something like hostname a better way of changing it?

If you want to do it the really easy way.. just run as root: netconfig or I think its also redhat-config-network

When I ran the hostname app it didn't change the files above...

Where exactly are the files that keep the permanent info for your hostname? Are they the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and etc/sysconfig/network? so if I just needed one change and had to do it the hardway then those two files should do it yeah?
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ok after more investigations it looks like ifup calls /etc/sysconfig/network so I'm going to assume that this file IS the permanent one and forget all the other options... unless someone else points out I'm doing this all wrong