From: John Beckett 

Randall Parker

wrote in message news::

> the hostname command does not change the hostname permanently.

I have a note that may help:
  FC4 Gnome - Change hostname
  System Settings / Network Configuration / Hosts

I see that you are on a completely different system, but I mention the
above in the hope you can find a similar GUI config.

You might hunt around the config files for one containing 'hostname'
(something that is read at every startup). I'm just guessing here, but
there probably is such a line, and if you edited the text you would be
configuring your hostname at each boot.

> The manual says one has to edit the /etc/hosts file to do that.

No. As you can see I am very weak on Linux admin, but the hosts file is to
provide a translation from host name to IP address (like DNS). It
definitely is NOT to name your computer.

Maybe what you read is confirming my suspicion above. There probably is a
config file saying

hostname localhost.localdomain

and you have to find that line and manually edit the names to suit. For example
hostname mybox.mydomain.com

John

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