On RH6.x it is stored in a file.
/etc/sysconfig
vi network
HOSTNAME=<set the host name here>
I believe you have to reboot for a change that is just to this file, but should
be a command to change it on the fly. Looks like it's hostname
man hostname
NAME
hostname - show or set the system's host name
domainname - show or set the system's NIS/YP domain name
dnsdomainname - show the system's DNS domain name
nisdomainname - show or set system's NIS/YP domain name
ypdomainname - show or set the system's NIS/YP domain name
nodename - show or set the system's DECnet node name
> I am having trouble setting my hostame. I have redhat 7.1. I manually
> edited /etc/hosts to:
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> 192.168.0.3 Shitty Shitty.localdomain
>
> I have also used "hostname Shitty"
>
> But my hostname still shows up at my command prompt as
> "localhost.localdomain.
>
> What am I doing wrong here. How to I properly set my hostname?
>
> Thx
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