On 11/11/16 19:23, Stephen Gallagher wrote:

I realize that some of this is coming from my old-school sensibilities, but I
still remember a time when changing the hostname of a running system caused lots
of things to fail, including NFS and sendmail.



Well...  many times I forget to set hostname during installation and when I do it afterwards nothing happens. So I guess those fails aren't applicable today.

Cheers, Sylvia