Michael Seney michael_seney@yahoo.com writes:
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.
The command `hostname' is only temporary as you've noticed.
Set it permanently here:
/etc/sysconfig/network