need fully qualified hostname before log-in - how?
 

my computer name is viking, but it needs to be viking.whatever.com (for a program I'm running). I can login as or su to root and use the hostname command, but that gets really tedious. How do I permanantly change the hostname?

Since you list your distro as RedHat, it uses the value from /etc/sysconfig/network. There should be a line in that file of the form:

Just change that to "viking.whatever.com" and you should be set.

Other distros do it different ways. Slackware, for instance, sets your hostname in /etc/rc.d/rc.M
using the value in /etc/HOSTNAME (assuming there is one, otherwise it provides a default) :

To change it here, you would remove the "-d ." or the entire pipe to cut.

Hope this helps.

First add the fqdn to /etc/hosts
Also, RedHat I think stores the fqdn in /etc/sysconfig/networks

The standard used to be /etc/hostname, on Debian it still is, on Slack its /etc/HOSTNAME... poke around a bit for where it is one RedHat, hopefully someone else will just "know" and post it after me.

Cheers,

Finegan

that's exactly what I was looking for. thanks.

On that note (maybe I should have made this a new thread... in another forum, but...) On another box, I have IRIX 6.5 (it's an SGI, obviously), and have no clue how to set the gateway. I noticed that the /etc/sysconfig/network file is where the gateway information is stored in RH... anyone have any clue as to where it's stored in IRIX 6.5?

An old SGI... mmm, cool toy!

Aside from the guess that you could hand hack it with:

route add default gw xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

I have no idea where its stored as a config. Really, post that somewhere under General and someone is bound to reply.

Cheers,

Finegan

yeah... a fun toy that cost $30K in '95 and gets outperformed by a $100 graphics card today. :) Oh well, it still does its job.

Thanks for the tip on posting in the general forum.

In IRIX, I believe the routing info is stored in /etc/config/static-route.options

(for all the Solaris dudes, out there, try /etc/defaultrouter )

However, I'm not an IRIX admin - I just play one on web forums ;)

FYI: I just ran the route command (to set the default gateway on IRIX):
:)