Red Hat and my hostname

Red Hat and my hostname

[Lorenzo Prince]

Hi.  I recently installed RH9 on my laptop and love it!  Now I want to
install it on my tower which acts as a server for FTP, Mail, NFS to my
laptop and www.  However, the one thing that holds up progress now is the
fact that I need to be able to use a consistent hostname even though my
computer gets its IP from a DHCP server.  This was fine with Slack, as the
hostname could still be set with netconfig.  However, RH only asks for a
hostname if the IP is static, and if not, it picks a seemingly random
hostname out of the air that is a big bunch of numbers and mess.  What can
I do to fix this?  Is there a program that will configure this for me, or
if not what script(s) do I need to edit to change this behaviour?

Thanks,
Lorenzo
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Re: Red Hat and my hostname

[jude dashiell]

Have a look at /etc/HOSTNAME note case.

Re: Red Hat and my hostname

[L. C. Robinson]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, jude dashiell wrote:

> Have a look at /etc/HOSTNAME note case.

That file is overwritten each boot from the info
in the correct config file.  All the RedHat GUI
front ends simply edit text files that can be hand
edited, and the documentation for these files is
found in the initscripts package, under (you
guessed it), /usr/share/doc/initscripts-6.67/,
in this case, specifically, in sysconfig.txt

Even more particularly, that file says, in part:
   /etc/sysconfig/network:

     NETWORKING=yes|no
     HOSTNAME=<fqdn by default, but whatever hostname you want>

That should help, not only with hostname setting,
but with anything else you need to set up.  Just
search in that file for what you need.  For
instance, do:
grep -5in HOSTNAME /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt

LCR

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