Bug 110225

Summary:	Hostname can not be changed from "localhost"
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jules Colding <jules>
Component:	coreutils	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
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Description Jules Colding 2003-11-17 09:56:40 UTC

Description of problem:
It is not possible to change the hostname across reboots using the
"hostname" utility 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
coreutils-5.0-24

How reproducible:
Everytime

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add <NAME> to /etc/hosts
2. Do "hostname <NAME>" in a terminal as root
3. Reboot
4. Observe that the hostname has regressed to "localhost"
  
Actual results:
Hostname has regressed to "localhost"

Expected results:
The hostname should be <NAME>

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Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2003-11-17 14:31:05 UTC

That's not what hostname(1) is for.  Use redhat-config-network.