[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Renaming a Linux host

[Terry]

On 7/26/05, Leroy Tennison <leroy_tennison at prodigy.net> wrote:
> Burton Strauss 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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> OK, if it only changes the in-memory value, why does the program exist?

To show or set the system's host name

>  Surely there are other ways of setting the in-memory value, what
> pragmatic other value does it have?

How many ways do you want?
Let's not make this out to be more complicated than it is.