[PLUG] Changing computer name

[Jim Webb]

You can also change the hostname on the fly by typing 
'echo FQDN > /proc/sys/kernel/hostname'  FQDN is fully qualified domain
name, which consists of hostname.domain.com or net, etc.  

TIA,

Jim


On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 11:35, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Matt Alexander wrote:
> 
> > This method will change the current hostname, but it won't survive a
> > reboot.
> > 
> > In RedHat, /etc/sysconfig/network should have a line that says:
> > HOSTNAME=whatever.you.want
> 
>   Thanks, Matt! I wasn't aware of this as I only used hostname when I
> installed postfix.
> 
> Rich
> 
> 
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