[CentOS] CentOS 6: hostname and timezone

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 15:22, John Kennedy <skebi69 at gmail.com> wrote:

> For changing the hostname without restart use the hostname command:
> hostname newhost.domain.com
>
> To keep the new hostname between restarts edit /etc/sysconfig/network, and
> change the hostname there.
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> Also its a good idea to check /etc/hosts, it can contain the old hostname,
> change/delete it.
>  John Kennedy
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> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 15:18, Alexander Farber <alexander.farber at gmail.com
> > wrote:
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>> Hello,
>>
>> I've purchased a new dedicated CentOS 6.0 / 64 bit server
>> and have 2 minor problems please:
>>
>> 1) The "hostname" is reported as CentOS-60-64-minimal at CLI -
>>     eventhough I've edited /etc/hosts and changed the 2nd line:
>>
>> 127.0.0.1 localhost
>> 176.9.123.123  preferans
>>
>>
Sorry for the top post...Hit send before I looked and changed it...Damn web
interface...
John