Am 11.10.2012 um 09:15 schrieb Phil Dobbin: > I recently installed CentOS 6.3 x86_64 on a Dell Poweredge 1850 (minimal > desktop) & after setting the hostname during the install, when bringing > up a terminal prompt, I'm still getting `localhost.localdomain` instead > of the hostname I set during install (interestingly enough both parted & > fdisk both show the correct hostname). What is the output of $ hostname -f ? > After Googling the subject somewhat, it seems to be no definitive, > correct way that everybody agreed upon. > > I'm away from my CentOS boxes for the morning (including the one in > question) but on my Fedora 17 laptop, I notice that the given hostname > is set in `/etc/sysconfig/network` but in `/etc/hosts`, it's > `localhost.localdomain` & `localhost`. in /etc/hosts the non-local ip should have your hostname. the local ip should have localhost e.g. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 10.1.1.1 myhost.mydomain.tld in /etc/sysconfig/network set you hostname corresponding with the entry in /etc/hosts and then reboot Regards -- LF