How to change the hostname, ip, gateway, dns in command line fedora core 6?

mrjeffc · 12-20-2006, 02:54 AM

Hello,
My first newbie question. Just installed Fedora Core 6, with no graphical environment, so I'm having trouble locating where I could change the hostname, ip address, dns, etc for eth0.

Any help gladly accepted.

mrjeffc · 12-20-2006, 03:16 AM

found part of my reply..
ifconfig eth0 IPaddress
route del default
route add default gw gatewayIP
Then you need to edit /etc/resolv.conf to make it look this way:
nameserver primaryDNS
nameserver secondaryDNS

-searching for permanant hostname change in the forums

raskin · 12-20-2006, 03:18 AM

man route
man ifconfig
man ip
man resolv.conf

or

man dhclient ...

In most cases you need simply run dhclient as root. So your ISP's computer will automatically tell your computer to use specific IP, gateway and NS. But you can read mentioned manuals to know how to set everything statically by hand.

If you are interested in second way, I can go in details.

raskin · 12-20-2006, 03:20 AM

Oh, and hostname is set by hostname command. During boot it is read from /etc/sysconfig/network .

mrjeffc · 12-20-2006, 03:22 AM

someone wrote: on fedora core, the hostname command won't do it permanently (goes away after reboot).
Try editing /etc/sysconfig/network

I have Fedora Core 6 and i don't have that folder "sysconfig"

where do i edit, and what do i put in it?

mrjeffc · 12-20-2006, 03:25 AM

thanks raskin. i found it. duh. don't know why vi didn't work the first time. must have mispelled it.