Showing posts with label How to set hostname in fedora core 16. Show all posts
Showing posts with label How to set hostname in fedora core 16. Show all posts

Wednesday, 14 November 2012

How to set hostname in fedora core 16

We have three way to change the hostname in Fedora core 16


1) Vim /etc/hosts, edit and add "test123" in last



127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 test123
::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6 test123


2) Vim /etc/sysconfig/networks, change hostname

 NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=test123
~                             

3) Use command hostname 

  set hostname test123


4) Reboot the machine

the machine should display the new hostname "test123"