Yahoo. It has changed. When i reboot will i get the hostname as lappy or that dhcppc stuff? Regards, Arnav Kalra 104, Sector 14 Karnal - 132001 Mobile - +91 9896961018 Home - +91 184 4030104 On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Tam Nguyen <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > If you don't want to reboot your computer, then become root and type this: > [arnav@dhcppc1 ~]$ hostname lappy > > then exit your terminal and open a new terminal. > > The actual file to change your hostname is: > [arnav@dhcppc1 ~]$ vi /etc/sysconfig/network > > If you edited file /etc/sysconfig/network, then you need to reboot your > computer. > > >