15 Jun
2009
15 Jun
'09
6:25 p.m.
How do I change the hostname? In particular, what is the difference between /etc/hosts and /etc/sysconfig/network files? Where should I make the changes?
/etc/hosts has nothing to do with the hostname this is just a way to resolve a name to an IP where DNS is not available or some other badness is going on
hostname is set in /etc/sysconfig/network but if you want to change it on the fly you can also echo it into /proc/sys/kernel/hostname