<p>Hi all,<br> <br> I have been surprised by how easy one can break a Fedora/ Red Hat system by only changing the host name. This is easily to replicate as I have done it three times on a Red Hat system.<br> After changing the host name (#hostname xyz), they system immediately hangs and one can't even start a new terminal. Rebooting don't help. It does improve things a bit when I manually change names in as many files as I could find - /etc/hosts, /etc/sysconfig/network*, etc – but it never get back to its previous performance in my opinion. Is there any saner way of executing such a trivia work? What could be the reason for "hostname" script to be that hopelessly useless?
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<p>Thank you in advance</p>
<p>William <br> </p>