Mark Sargent wrote: > but it returned to original, > > [ozboy at home-hehbbzsuy7 ~]$ hostname > home-hehbbzsuy7 > > upon reboot. How is this changed permanently? Cheers. /etc/sysconfig/network Your hostname looks like it is getting set by dhcp from your ISP though. There's a magic keyword you can stick in /etc/dhcpcd.conf or somesuch to force the hostname not to get overwritten. If you have a look in fedora-list archives I recall posting about it a couple of months ago. -Andy -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 4492 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060502/b76e7f22/attachment-0005.bin>