Re: How to make hostname survive boot

John Rye wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 14:55:33 +0100
> Len Lawrence wrote:
>
>> The brain is beginning to congeal.  My Dell XPS 710 has just given up 
>> the host so over to the laptop.  In the past I have successfully changed 
>> the hostname such that it survived a reboot.  Cannot remember the 
>> prescription.  Ran "hostname canopus" as root and aliased localhost to 
>> canopus in the /etc/hosts file.
>>
>
> edit /etc/sysconfig/network to include the full hostname
>
> it should look something like this:
>
> [lists@amd64: sysconfig]$ cat network
> NETWORKING=yes
> HOSTNAME=amd64.localhost.localdomain
> [lists@amd64: sysconfig]$
>
>
> John NZ
>
Should have been "given up the ghost".

Yep, that did the trick.   Thanks John.
 

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