Hostname issues

[Jeremy Baker]

On Saturday 01 July 2006 05:59, Kihara Muriithi wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  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.
>  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?
>
> Thank you in advance
>
> William
I didn't realize such a command existed.  I have always modified /etc/hosts 
and /etc/sysconfig/network and rebooted.  It has always worked well for me.
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