Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

Marcus,

on 2008/09/14 0:41, Marcus Moeller wrote:

Concerning RH or CentOS: I have to define /etc/hosts on all machines that do not obtain their hostname via DHCP. I have not yet figured out that the HOSTNAME variable in /etc/sysconfig/network is used in any form (correct me if I am wrong).

See /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. In that file you can find following lines

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if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/network ]; then . /etc/sysconfig/network fi

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# Set the hostname. update_boot_stage RChostname action $"Setting hostname ${HOSTNAME}: " hostname ${HOSTNAME}

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The ${HOSTNAME} variable comes form /etc/sysconfig/network.