how to change hostname

[Kevin Brown]

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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