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.
Also its a good idea to check /etc/hosts, it can contain the old hostname,
change/delete it.
John Kennedy
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 15:18, Alexander Farber
<alexander.farber@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> 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
>
> 2) Why is /etc/localtime a regular file? Should I maybe
>
> rm /etc/localtime
> ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime
>
> Why isn't it done by the CentOS 6.0 install?
>
> Thank you
> Alex
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