Bug 55746

Summary:	Hostname setting problems
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Alan Cox <alan>
Component:	redhat-config-network	Assignee:	Trond Eivind Glomsrxd <teg>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.2	CC:	harald, pknirsch, teg, than
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Description Alan Cox 2001-11-05 23:13:40 UTC

Changing the hostname doesn't dynamically update the hostname in
the kernel (ie sethostname, utsname etc). A reboot is needed

Comment 1 Phil Knirsch 2001-11-06 15:34:22 UTC

This is expected behaviour. You need to restart the networking if you change the
hostname.

Read ya, Phil

Comment 2 Alan Cox 2001-11-06 15:40:45 UTC

Can I ask for a change then. This confused me and the person I was with. 

I've updated it to RFE - please stick up a "do you wish to restart networking"
dialog and do so if they say yes

Comment 3 Phil Knirsch 2001-11-06 15:57:15 UTC

OK, noted as RFE. What we might actually go for is a dialog after changing the
setup which asks if a restart of the network is wanted. Only doing a hostname
change is not reasonable.

Read ya, Phil

Comment 4 Harald Hoyer 2002-04-03 10:22:47 UTC

should be fixed in >=0.9.22

Comment 5 Jay Turner 2002-08-14 18:53:21 UTC

Fix confirmed in the current tree.