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Re: hostname won't be set
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:28:54 -0600
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On 02/28/2011 02:40 PM, Kai Heide wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> my hostname won't be set and I don't know why!
>
>
> [root@localhost ~]# cat /proc/cmdline
> ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_justice4all-lv_root
> rd_LUKS_UUID=luks-d830f8fe-41d4-4fc7-837a-7a2c1520bbe8
> rd_LVM_LV=vg_justice4all/lv_root rd_LVM_LV=vg_justice4all/lv_swap
> rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16
> KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=de-latin1-nodeadkeys rhgb quiet
> hostname=justice
>
> [root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/hosts
> 192.168.2.112	noname	# Added by NetworkManager
> 127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain	localhost
> ::1	noname	localhost6.localdomain6	localhost6
>

If you edit

/etc/sysconfig/network

and edit the HOSTNAME to be what you want the hostname to be.

That's what I always do.  but then, with SL6, I also edit /etc/hosts as 
well.
I haven't gone through RedHat's documentation on what the official way 
is nowdays.
Troy
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