on 9-12-2008 11:06 PM Niki Kovacs spake the following: > 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 This should be the ip address of your local adapter, not 127.0.0.1 > ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 > > Please correct me if I'm wrong. > > cheers, > > Niki Kovacs Everything else seems OK. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080915/14e0edda/attachment-0005.sig>