On May 2, 2012, at 9:59 AM, Arnav Kalra wrote:

> Thanks. I tried editing the file and saved it but when i open the terminal it shows the user as arnav@dhcppc0 even though i have set the hostname as lappy.

Ah, that one.

Throw dhcp_hostname=your.hostname.here into /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 or equivalent for your system.

-- Corey