On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 12:06:31 PM John J. Boyer wrote: > Thanks to all of you who are answering my dumb questions about my new > CentOS instgallation. > > I modified /etc/hosts, as the hostname man page seemed to suggest, and > rebooted. The hostname is still localhost. I want to change it to > jjb-centos. I also want to change the domain name to abilitiessoft.com > > Thanks, > John Hi John, Hostname will need to be changed under /etc/sysconfig/network to be retained upon startup. The hostname command should change the hostname immediately iirc. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos