Russell, I can't find /etc/hostname. Are you sure RH7.1 has this?
/etc/sysconfig/network had a remnant of localhost.local stuff. I
just changed it, so I'll let ya'll know.
/mario
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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.
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>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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