Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I goofed again after a rebuild from a kickstart so had to rename yet again, see below:
On 02/14/2013 01:13 PM, Digimer wrote:
On 02/14/2013 01:11 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I need to change the host name on a test server, and in the past when I used hostname to change the hostname, it did not seem to change it everywhere.
<snip>
What is the recommened practice? Other than get it right the first time.
To make the change permanent, edit /etc/ssyconfig/network and set the desired hostname after HOSTNAME=.
I did this and rebooted, but /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 was not changed. NetworkManager does not seem to have a dialog for changing it there. I manually edited the file. When I saved the file, NM seems to have noticed the change and auto-restarted the interface.
Is this a laptop? If it's a server, or a workstation, the opinion around here is NetworkManager MUST DIE.... If you're hardwired, you don't need it, ever - network is still there, and doesn't screw around with your settings.
Here's another question: you're building it via kickstart - are you getting the hostname via dhcp?
We've got a perl script to create a ks file dynamically, depending on what option we want (server, desktop, etc), and we get the name via dhcp, and put that in.
mark