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Re: Renaming localhost on standalone machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cyber-Babushka)
Tue Nov 19 13:25:19 1996
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 13:00:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Cyber-Babushka <u6ed4@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>
Reply-To: Cyber-Babushka <u6ed4@wvnvm.wvnet.edu>
To: Red Hat List <redhat-list@redhat.com>
cc: Dirk Laurie <redhatter@calvyn.puk.ac.za>
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> I know this is purely cosmetic, but...
>
> I have a machine at home with no networking as yet, so I didn't
> install any networking support. Now any prompt containing \h
> says 'localhost'. I've changed /etc/HOSTNAME and put a line
> in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, and user login sessions actually come
> up with the right HOSTNAME, but this does nothing to \h.
I have the same situation you do. Try this:
#cd /etc/sysconfig
and see if you have a file there called 'network'. Mine had two lines:
NETWORKING=no
HOSTNAME=localhost
I changed 'localhost' to the name I wanted. This worked for me.
bonni
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