[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Renaming a Linux host

[Leroy Tennison]

Robert Citek wrote:

>
> On Jul 23, 2005, at 9:04 PM, Leroy Tennison wrote:
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>> 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?
>
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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.