For Red-Hat systems, you just need to edit /etc/sysconfig/network. At the time of start-up, rc.sysinit reads HOSTNAME varaible from this file and runs hostname command to set it.
# Set the hostname. action $"Setting hostname ${HOSTNAME}: " hostname ${HOSTNAME}
$HOSTNAME is read from /etc/sysconfig/network.
Manu
Supreet Sethi supreet@linux-delhi.org Sent by: linuxers-bounces@mm.ilug-bom.org.in 01/22/2004 03:37 PM Please respond to "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India"
To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in cc: Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: Problem with setting hostname.
Slackware stores in hostname file in /etc.
It really depends on rc files which load up the system. Debian picks the hostname from /etc/hosts
RedHat most Windows Registry compliant of them all has it is Windows .ini file style in /etc/sysconfig/network
Supreet
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 12:08, quasiabhi@softhome.net wrote:
Philip S Tellis writes:
Sometime Today, q u a s i assembled some asciibets to say:
use the hostname command.
or edit /etc/hostname
no, use the hostname command. /etc/hostname is not the only place
where
the hostname is stored.
I was unaware of this - pray can I know where else the hostname is
stored on
various GNU/Linux distributions ?