how to change hostname

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Author: Kevin Brown
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Subject: how to change hostname
P.S. Oh, try and log out then log back in after changing it. <-- forgot this in
my other message.

Eric wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> 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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