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There's another file called...well..../etc/hostname that you have to use to
set your host's name. Then it will show up when you boot...
Your hosts file is for basic dns type name lookups.
HTH
Russell
On Monday 21 October 2002 23:32 pm, you wrote:
> I'm using RH7.1.
>
> I type at the shell prompt:
> hostname mynewhostname
> ypdomainname mynewhostname
>
> /etc/hosts has:
> 127.0.0.1 mynewhostname
>
> Why is it when I reboot, I lose the mynewhostname name? It does back
> to localhost.local.
>
> /mario
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