linux redhat 9 host inq

Robin01 · 09-04-2003, 09:35 PM

Hello everybody,

I'm pretty new to linux itself and my question is...where do i enter the hostname...

i looked at my router info and it has the mac address and ip and hostname of windows based systems but not the linux based system....
where do i put the hostname in linux redhat 9..

DrOzz · 09-04-2003, 09:42 PM

here you go

Robin01 · 09-04-2003, 10:13 PM

Hi,

i added the following line:

/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
hostname=voyager <--- line i added

/etc/sysconfig/network

networking-yes
# hostname=localhost.localdomain <--this line i rem. out
hostname-voyager <-- i added

now when i reboot the system i get and host name conflic...I think i'm doing something wrong here...
can someeon look at this and let me know..
thanks