Re: computer "forgot" its name

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On Dec 7, 2004, at 3:30 PM, Marty Landman wrote:

At 01:59 PM 12/7/2004, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Marty Landman wrote:

> I just had a power outage in my office and now my RH9 box which runs a
> samba server is reporting its name on my intranet as localhost rather than
> penguin. What should I be looking at to fix this?
>
Look at /etc/sysconfig/network. There should be an entry that starts with
HOSTNAME=

Thanks, did the trick of course. BTW, did I have a better alternative than rebooting to to implement the change?


Marty


Of course- this is Linux. As root: #hostname <newhostname>

hth,
Jurvis LaSalle


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