[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Renaming a Linux host

[Burton Strauss]

Sure, but you'll probably need to reboot to start really, really, breaking
things :-)

-----Burton
 

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From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On Behalf
Of Terry
Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 12:02 PM
To: NTLUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Renaming a Linux host

One could probably just go on and change host name as needed and fix what
needs fixing after the fact.  (It should be obvious - just see what no
longer works and address the issues as they arise.)

On 7/25/05, Burton Strauss <Burton_Strauss at comcast.net> 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
> To: NTLUG Discussion List
> 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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