renaming your box (this SHOULD) be easy
 

in rh9, you could rename your box just by changing the name from localhost inside of the nic card window. in enterprise this seems to cause an error that gives you a window right before logging in about "can't find _____. try adding it to whatever". i did add it. and i did it under the nic and i played with variations on all of it. and i still get the same thing. help?

edit "/etc/hosts" and add your new hostname..


example: u changed your linux box name to linux.domain.com
your hosts file can be like this:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost linux.domain.com linux


it will work with no problem.



if u want to change your linux hostname edit "/etc/sysconfig/network" like this:

HOSTNAME=linux.domain.com

I just do:

# echo newhostname > /etc/hostname
# hostname -F /etc/hostname