Re: Changing Hostname for RH 9.0 Enterprise?

From: Jean-David Beyer (jdbeyer_at_exit109.com)
Date: 11/26/04 

Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 09:42:08 -0500

W. Watson wrote:
> Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>
>> W. Watson wrote:
>>
>>> I tried using the hostname command to produce a new hostname, but
>>> that certainly stick. When I booted HOSTNAME was still the same
>>> value. I also changed the host name in the /etc/hosts file. That
>>> didn't change after boot up--stayed as I left it, the new value. When
>>> the blue screen for login comes up, it still has the old host name.
>>
>>
>>
>> What is that? Red Hat Enterprise Linux is only up to 3(.3).
>>
>> Red Hat Linux 9 is the last of the Red Hat Linux series. AFAIK, they
>> had no dot releases.
>>
>> BTW, you shut down X and with a console, you change
>> /etc/sysconfig/network line to change system name on Red Hat
>> distributions. Anything else gets undone whenever your reboot.
>>
> OK, I just went out to the other building and fired up Linux. Just
> before the graphics login screen, the text reads Readhat Linux Release 9
> (Shrike).
>
My Enterprise system reveals:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 3)

Whereas my Red Hat 9 Linux system reveals:

Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)

So I infer you are talking about a RHL9 system, not a RHEL3 system. 

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