Paul Pianta wrote:
Michael Seney wrote:
Anyone ever have a problem with setting your hostname. Here is the deal, I dual boot w/ Windows XP which is ofcourse the first partition NTFS. Then there is a Fat32 Middle Partition and then my ext3 / a swap and /home which is ext3. For some reason it autonames my hostname upon installation gecko? I think Windows uses that? I wanted to make it something different and edit the /etc/hosts and made the 127.0.0.1 newhostname localhost. Used #hostname newhostname. Restarted X server and it took until a reboot? Any ideas why it wants to be gecko and doesn't like any other hostnames I want to specify. * I just put FC3T2 on this system and previously ran Debian Sarge with the hostname I liked without a problem.
Yeah setting hostname on a fedora box can be a bit of a run-around. There are 3 things that I do to get it right ...
- Add it to your /etc/hosts
- Run the command 'hostname newhostname'
- Modify the HOSTNAME parameter in '/etc/sysconfig/network'
I believe 1 & 2 above are temporary at best (if they work at all), #3 is preferred and will survive a reboot.
ron