Instead of reboot, if the logout/login doesn't work, try doing
'/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart'
Kevin Brown wrote:
>
> 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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