I've been pouring over the /etc directory and cannot seem to figure out how to specify the domainname of the machine. After spending way too long, I became frustrated and simply edited /etc/init.d/network so that it just sets the domainname with:
Is there a way to set the domainname without using this hack?

have you checked /etc/hosts?

I do not believe that /etc/hosts is used to set the domainname of a machine. I gave it a try anyway and it did not work.

the correct place to enter it is

/etc/sysconfig/network

change it here and it will be there forever .. also change the corresponding entry in the /etc/hosts files.

then as root
service network restart

else you might get some other errors.

you can see the changes by
1) hostname command
or
2) Uname -n

and you will have to logout & then login to see the corrected changes

I am aware that I can set the hostname in the /etc/sysconfig/network file like this:
But this does not result in the domainname being set. As in, if I run the `domainname` command, then I'll get "(none)" as the result. I tried adding this to the network file:
But that did not appear to work either. So far the following two methods work for setting the domainame:[list=1][*]Setting it through DHCP client[*]Hacking an init script[/list=1]
I know that in SuSE there is a file called something like /etc/defaultdomain that one can use to set the machine's domainname. Does Fedora Core 4 not have a way to do this?