RE: Change of hostname

[tomas sanchez <tomas altern org>]

Hi,

I to am completely new to linux. but I seem to have fixed this problem.

as root, I did as follow:
  1. I issued the command "hostname 'hostname'"
  2. then I changed the /etc/hosts-file to look like this:
 "127.0.0.1    localhost 'hostname'
  3. I changed the hostname in linuxconf-basic host information to "hostname"
  4. reboot!..

this did the jobb for me. I don't know if it works for you. but I thought I'd
let you know.

anarchy&love
tomas

On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Lee Turner wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I am completely new to Linux so you will have to forgive my ignorance.
> 
> I have recently installed the Red Hat 6 distribution on my Intel PC.  The
> installation went fine and I have been playing around to familiarize myself
> with Linux.  I then decided to change the hostname of my PC via the netcfg
> program.  This seemed to work OK until I rebooted and tried to logon via the
> graphical logon screen.  I got a message saying that it was trying to
> resolve the Internet address for my PC.  This had never happened before and
> after quite a while it told me that it couldn't find it, and that Gnome
> would not function properly.  It also said that I could fix it by adding the
> name of my PC to the etc/hosts file, but it was already there.
> 
> I had already set up all the networking aspects of my PC during the install
> and they were working fine.
> 
> I am sorry if this is not specifically a Gnome problem, but due to my lack
> of knowledge, this was the first place I started.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Lee