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Changing Hostname for RH 9.0 Enterprise?
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| W. Watson 2004-11-25, 8:45 pm |
| I tried using the hostname command to produce a new hostname, but that certainly
stick. When I booted HOSTNAME was still the same value. I also changed the host name
in the /etc/hosts file. That didn't change after boot up--stayed as I left it, the
new value. When the blue screen for login comes up, it still has the old host name.
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Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
(Formerly Homo habilis, erectus, heidelbergensis and now sapiens)
"I'm not going to die. It would ruin my image."
-- Jack La Lanne, 90 year old early TV health
& exercise promoter
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| Lenard 2004-11-25, 8:45 pm |
| On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 02:29:36 +0000, W. Watson wrote:
> I tried using the hostname command to produce a new hostname, but that
> certainly stick. When I booted HOSTNAME was still the same value. I also
> changed the host name in the /etc/hosts file. That didn't change after
> boot up--stayed as I left it, the new value. When the blue screen for
> login comes up, it still has the old host name.
Change your /etc/host file back to the way it was, then edit
/etc/sysconfig/network, sample below;
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=The_Computer_Name_Goes_Here
NOZEROCONF=yes
Then restart the network, as root from the console or xterm session;
service network restart
And FYI; Red Hat Linux 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are different
products.
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- B. Franklin, 1759
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| W. Watson 2004-11-26, 2:45 am |
| Lenard wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 02:29:36 +0000, W. Watson wrote:
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>
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> Change your /etc/host file back to the way it was, then edit
> /etc/sysconfig/network, sample below;
>
> NETWORKING=yes
> HOSTNAME=The_Computer_Name_Goes_Here
> NOZEROCONF=yes
>
> Then restart the network, as root from the console or xterm session;
> service network restart
>
> And FYI; Red Hat Linux 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are different
> products.
>
>
I'll give it a try.
Yes, my wife has RH 9, and I have RH Enterprise. I think the 9 tag applies to it. At
least, I think the sales literature carried that tag as well as Enterprise. I don't
believe there are Enterprise updates. Just the 9.0 for it.
--
Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
(Formerly Homo habilis, erectus, heidelbergensis and now sapiens)
"I'm not going to die. It would ruin my image."
-- Jack La Lanne, 90 year old early TV health
& exercise promoter
Web Page: <home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews>
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| Jean-David Beyer 2004-11-26, 7:45 am |
| W. Watson wrote:
> I tried using the hostname command to produce a new hostname, but that
> certainly stick. When I booted HOSTNAME was still the same value. I also
> changed the host name in the /etc/hosts file. That didn't change after
> boot up--stayed as I left it, the new value. When the blue screen for
> login comes up, it still has the old host name.
What is that? Red Hat Enterprise Linux is only up to 3(.3).
Red Hat Linux 9 is the last of the Red Hat Linux series. AFAIK, they had
no dot releases.
BTW, you shut down X and with a console, you change /etc/sysconfig/network
line to change system name on Red Hat distributions. Anything else gets
undone whenever your reboot.
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.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 241939.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
^^-^^ 08:00:00 up 34 days, 10:55, 3 users, load average: 4.21, 4.26, 4.25
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| W. Watson 2004-11-26, 7:45 am |
| Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> W. Watson wrote:
>
>
>
> What is that? Red Hat Enterprise Linux is only up to 3(.3).
>
> Red Hat Linux 9 is the last of the Red Hat Linux series. AFAIK, they had
> no dot releases.
>
> BTW, you shut down X and with a console, you change
> /etc/sysconfig/network line to change system name on Red Hat
> distributions. Anything else gets undone whenever your reboot.
>
OK, I just went out to the other building and fired up Linux. Just before the
graphics login screen, the text reads Readhat Linux Release 9 (Shrike).
--
Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
(Formerly Homo habilis, erectus, heidelbergensis and now sapiens)
"I'm not going to die. It would ruin my image."
-- Jack La Lanne, 90 year old early TV health
& exercise promoter
Web Page: <home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews>
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| Jean-David Beyer 2004-11-26, 7:45 am |
| W. Watson wrote:
> Jean-David Beyer wrote:
>
> OK, I just went out to the other building and fired up Linux. Just
> before the graphics login screen, the text reads Readhat Linux Release 9
> (Shrike).
>
My Enterprise system reveals:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 3)
Whereas my Red Hat 9 Linux system reveals:
Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)
So I infer you are talking about a RHL9 system, not a RHEL3 system.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 241939.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
^^-^^ 09:35:00 up 34 days, 12:30, 3 users, load average: 4.34, 4.24, 4.20
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| W. Watson 2004-11-26, 5:46 pm |
| Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> W. Watson wrote:
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> My Enterprise system reveals:
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> Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 3)
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> Whereas my Red Hat 9 Linux system reveals:
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> Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)
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> So I infer you are talking about a RHL9 system, not a RHEL3 system.
>
I'm something of an innocent bystander here. I wouldn't necessarily be using Linux if
it weren't for the fact that the application I'm running, on a rt kernel with a 24/7
meteor camera attached, requires it. My interest in Linux is keeping the application
running. What is RHEL3? I guess the Linux 'product' is distributed by the
originators, and has its own release (version?) scheme?
--
Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
(Formerly Homo habilis, erectus, heidelbergensis and now sapiens)
"I'm not going to die. It would ruin my image."
-- Jack La Lanne, 90 year old early TV health
& exercise promoter
Web Page: <home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews>
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| Jean-David Beyer 2004-11-26, 5:46 pm |
| W. Watson wrote:
> I'm something of an innocent bystander here. I wouldn't necessarily be
> using Linux if it weren't for the fact that the application I'm running,
> on a rt kernel with a 24/7 meteor camera attached, requires it. My
> interest in Linux is keeping the application running. What is RHEL3? I
> guess the Linux 'product' is distributed by the originators, and has its
> own release (version?) scheme?
>
This thread is becomming a bit too long.
At this point it seems to be merely a question about what someone would
mean by the Subject line: "Changing Hostname for RH 9.0 Enterprise?" since
there is no such thing as 9.0 Enterprise. There _was_ a Red Hat product
known as _Red Hat Linux 9_ that has been discontinued for a while now (a
year or so?); it went by the name "Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)."
Red Hat no longer maintain Red Hat Linux distributions at all. That is now
handled by the Fedora distributions that are identified by Fedora Core 2
(and similar) identifiers.
Red Hat do provide distributions, known as _Red Hat Enterprise Linux_ and
version 3 is current. It is identified by the name "Red Hat Enterprise
Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 3)", at least the up to date version I
have. They also have similar distributions named AS and WS.
So I know nothing about your application. If it runs on Red Hat Linux 9,
then fine. But it RHL9 is obsolete and unsupported. I run it on one of my
machines, too, because Fedora Core 2 did not work well for me.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is fairly costly and involves an annual fee for
support. Unlike the Red Hat Linux and the Fedora distributions that tried
to be state-of-the-art, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux tries for stability
and reliability. They do not distribute new versions of anything, but they
do fix the bugs and security problems as fast as they can, and these are
automatically distributed over Red Hat Network using the _up2date_ program.
--
.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ Registered Machine 241939.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
^^-^^ 12:05:00 up 34 days, 15:00, 4 users, load average: 4.83, 4.43, 4.29
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| W. Watson 2004-11-26, 5:46 pm |
| Jean-David Beyer wrote:
> W. Watson wrote:
>
> This thread is becomming a bit too long.
Yes, especially since I've corrected the original problem. :-)
>
> At this point it seems to be merely a question about what someone would
> mean by the Subject line: "Changing Hostname for RH 9.0 Enterprise?"
> since there is no such thing as 9.0 Enterprise. There _was_ a Red Hat
> product known as _Red Hat Linux 9_ that has been discontinued for a
> while now (a year or so?); it went by the name "Red Hat Linux release 9
> (Shrike)."
Yep, that's the one I have.
>
> Red Hat no longer maintain Red Hat Linux distributions at all. That is
> now handled by the Fedora distributions that are identified by Fedora
> Core 2 (and similar) identifiers.
>
> Red Hat do provide distributions, known as _Red Hat Enterprise Linux_
> and version 3 is current. It is identified by the name "Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon Update 3)", at least the up to
> date version I have. They also have similar distributions named AS and WS.
>
>
> So I know nothing about your application. If it runs on Red Hat Linux 9,
> then fine. But it RHL9 is obsolete and unsupported. I run it on one of
> my machines, too, because Fedora Core 2 did not work well for me.
>
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux is fairly costly and involves an annual fee for
> support. Unlike the Red Hat Linux and the Fedora distributions that
> tried to be state-of-the-art, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux tries for
> stability and reliability. They do not distribute new versions of
> anything, but they do fix the bugs and security problems as fast as they
> can, and these are automatically distributed over Red Hat Network using
> the _up2date_ program.
>
Yes, I'm beginning to regret the Enterprise purchase. Unfortunately, the govt. agency
that supplied all the hardware for the application, and the the software itself
didn't give much guidance on what current Linux (back in 2003) to home in on. I don't
work for the govt. I managed to grab the Enterprise version (release?), since it was
the only one I could find. Later the availability of non-Enterprise 9.0 version came
to my attention. That was a week later, but neither the store nor RH would refund my
bucks.
Anyway, I think that about wraps up this thread for me.
--
Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
(Formerly Homo habilis, erectus, heidelbergensis and now sapiens)
"I'm not going to die. It would ruin my image."
-- Jack La Lanne, 90 year old early TV health
& exercise promoter
Web Page: <home.earthlink.net/~mtnviews>
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