renaming your box (this SHOULD) be easy

milesstandish · 03-29-2004, 12:19 AM

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?

maxut · 03-29-2004, 06:29 AM

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

R4z0r · 03-29-2004, 07:38 AM

I just do:

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