Hello, you can do it from here. go through System >> Network >> Hosts edit host name from here. all things you have done till now are correct. On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Niki Kovacs <contact at kikinovak.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I recently made a CentOS install on a machine with an unsupported network > card. I had to add the driver for it later, once I finished the install. For > now I have this: > > [kikinovak at localhost ~]$ hostname --fqdn > localhost.localdomain > > Q: how would I change this to something like calimero.local? > > Here's what I *would* do, but I prefer to ask before. > > 1) edit /etc/sysconfig/network and edit this line: > > HOSTNAME=calimero.local > > 2) add a line to /etc/hosts like this: > > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs > # that require network functionality will fail. > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > 127.0.0.1 calimero.local calimero > ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 > > Please correct me if I'm wrong. > > cheers, > > Niki Kovacs > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Thanks and Regards, Kapil Singh Kushwah Linux System/Network Administrator Hotwax Media Inc. Indore,(M.P) INDIA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080913/b8d55d19/attachment-0005.html>