[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Renaming a Linux host

[Terry]

One could probably just go on and change host name as needed and fix
what needs fixing after the fact.  (It should be obvious - just see
what no longer works and address the issues as they arise.)

On 7/25/05, Burton Strauss <Burton_Strauss at comcast.net> wrote:
> That's what he's saying - the hostname command just changes the in-memory
> value (in fact, hostname is usually what the various boot scripts execute to
> set it based on your settings in /etc/sysconfig/network).
> 
> Plus hostname wouldn't change a registered dhcp value (if there is one) nor
> other external names.  And it doesn't fix /etc/hosts for local name
> resolution.
> 
> -----Burton
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On Behalf
> Of Leroy Tennison
> Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 10:48 PM
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> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Renaming a Linux host
> 
> Robert Citek wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Jul 23, 2005, at 9:04 PM, Leroy Tennison wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks for the input.  While Googling I came across what should  have
> >> been obvious 'man hostname' says that the program will set the
> >> hostname. Now, is that too simplistic?
> >
> >
> > Yes, for the hostname will only be changed for the current kernel
> > session.  What distro are you running?
> >
> > Regards,
> > - Robert
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> Wait a minute, you're telling me this won't presist through reboot?  I'm
> mainly running Red Hat 9 although I have SuSE 8.2, 9.2, Mandrake 10 (or 11,
> don't remember) and Fedora Core 3 installed.
> 
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