how to change hostname

[Isaac Sparrow]

From the man page for hostname on Red Hat Linux 7.1:

HOSTNAME(1)   Linux Programmer's Manual   HOSTNAME(1)

The  host  name  is  usually set once at system startup in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 
or /etc/init.d/boot (normally by  read­ing  the  contents of a file which 
contains the host name, e.g.  /etc/hostname).

Usually  (if  the hosts  file is parsed before DNS or NIS) you can change it 
in etc/hosts.

Hope this helps,
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On Friday 19 October 2001 02:14 pm, Kevin Brown wrote:
> 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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