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or you can just <br />
<br />
sudo hostname new.hostname
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or you can just

sudo hostname new.hostname

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Yes, with above commands I presumed that you will already be root user.<br />
<br />
Furthermore, you have to do combination of both because without this it will not persist after reboot.
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Yes, with above commands I presumed that you will already be root user.

Furthermore, you have to do combination of both because without this it will not persist after reboot.

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Farzanj, you are correct on the reboot not keeping the name.. <br />
how silly of me to forget that
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Farzanj, you are correct on the reboot not keeping the name..
how silly of me to forget that

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Hi R Edwards, &nbsp;Not silly at all. &nbsp;Your solution fixes the problem. &nbsp;I was just luck to get first :)<br />
Have a nice day!
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Hi R Edwards,  Not silly at all.  Your solution fixes the problem.  I was just luck to get first :)
Have a nice day!

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Hi,<br />
<br />
I have a redhat 5 installation and I want to change the hostname of it..<br />
<br />
This is the name now:<br />
[root@localhost ~]# hostname<br />
localhost.localdomain<br />
<br />
I will edit this file:<br />
/etc/sysconfig/network<br />
<br />
<br />
But do I need to restart the mahcine to have changed?<br />
<br />
Tks,<br />
Joao
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Hi,

I have a redhat 5 installation and I want to change the hostname of it..

This is the name now:
[root@localhost ~]# hostname
localhost.localdomain

I will edit this file:
/etc/sysconfig/network


But do I need to restart the mahcine to have changed?

Tks,
Joao

Linux RedHat5 - Change hostname of the machine

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