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09-04-2002, 06:44 AM
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Registered: Jun 2002
Location: Florida
Distribution: Redhat, FreeBSD, FC 6
Posts: 220
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how can I rename my computer ?
(OS RH7.3)
I want to rename my computer from localhost to something else what all is involved in this? Also what kind of problems could I run into?
Thanks! LQ is the best
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09-04-2002, 07:05 AM
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Moderator
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
Posts: 43,417
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run "hostname"
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09-04-2002, 07:16 AM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2002
Location: Florida
Distribution: Redhat, FreeBSD, FC 6
Posts: 220
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Chris, All that does is tell me the name I have now. Please explain in a little more detail
Thanks for your help
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09-04-2002, 07:21 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Salt Lake City, UT - USA
Distribution: Gentoo ; LFS ; Kubuntu ; CentOS ; Raspbian
Posts: 12,613
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you would type hostname HOSTNAME
Where HOSTNAME is the name you want.
Cool
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09-04-2002, 07:23 AM
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Moderator
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
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manpages rock!
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09-04-2002, 07:55 AM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2002
Location: Florida
Distribution: Redhat, FreeBSD, FC 6
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I typed hostname "Oliver Twist" and it crashed my system I had to reboot. It was all locked up, Konsole wouldn't even open lol. it reset it's self back to localhost I must have done something wrong
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09-04-2002, 08:12 AM
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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
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not recommended to have spaces in hostnames, askign for trouble really, although i can't see why that crashed anything. you can always jsut edit the entry in /etc/hosts and maybe /etc/sysconfig/network if youdo any network stuff, i think that's all it really does
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