>

Thanks Jay, this worked. I tried searching the archives but didn't find
anything there. Gee, I wonder why linuxconf (which, BTW, doesn't automatically
install in 7.1) couldn't make the change?!

>
>
> A lot of people have been posting about the hostname command.  Please
> correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't that command only affect the current
> setup with redhat?  Since it keeps the hostname in a config file in
> /etc/sysconfig/network (I think) it will use that every time it boots.  If
> you want to change it for reboots, I believe you also need to have it
> changed in that script.  Just changing that script will not affect your
> system at that point: you could run `hostname bravo` at this point, or
> reboot if you like it the M$ way.
>
> Jay