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Bug 1359222 - Change of /etc/hostname does not change the hostname
Summary: Change of /etc/hostname does not change the hostname
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1356188
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: systemd
Version: 7.3
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: systemd-maint
QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-07-22 14:25 UTC by Patrik Kis
Modified: 2016-07-26 11:32 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2016-07-26 11:32:11 UTC
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Description Patrik Kis 2016-07-22 14:25:17 UTC 
Description of problem:
For hostname change it is not enough to change /etc/hosts as it was in RHEL-7.2 and earlier releases, but NetworkManager has to be restarted as well. This is a regression.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
NetworkManager-1.0.6-27.el7

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. change /etc.hostname
2. The hostname command return still the old hostname
3.

Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:
Comment 2 Patrik Kis 2016-07-26 09:45:17 UTC 
Well, this is systemd and not NetworkManager.


# rpm -q systemd
systemd-219-24.el7.x86_64
# cat /etc/hostname
old.host.name
# hostname
old.host.name
# hostnamectl
   Static hostname: old.host.name
         Icon name: computer-vm
           Chassis: vm
        Machine ID: 54a8b1f939e74844af5f5c36eceb7217
           Boot ID: e3d682f65abc438590288405bec7c36f
    Virtualization: kvm
  Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.3 Beta (Maipo)
       CPE OS Name: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.3:beta:server
            Kernel: Linux 3.10.0-470.el7.x86_64
      Architecture: x86-64
# 
# echo new.host.name > /etc/hostname 
# sleep 3
# hostname
old.host.name
# hostnamectl
   Static hostname: new.host.name
Transient hostname: old.host.name
         Icon name: computer-vm
           Chassis: vm
        Machine ID: 54a8b1f939e74844af5f5c36eceb7217
           Boot ID: e3d682f65abc438590288405bec7c36f
    Virtualization: kvm
  Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.3 Beta (Maipo)
       CPE OS Name: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.3:beta:server
            Kernel: Linux 3.10.0-470.el7.x86_64
      Architecture: x86-64
# 



With old systemd it was like this:


# rpm -q systemd
systemd-219-19.el7.x86_64
# cat /etc/hostname
old.host.name
# hostname
old.host.name
# hostnamectl
   Static hostname: old.host.name
         Icon name: computer-vm
           Chassis: vm
        Machine ID: 9c5f29222baa4fb99b755838e1bb5fcb
           Boot ID: 60f88d7784024a8881ae341e3746f6ad
    Virtualization: kvm
  Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.2 (Maipo)
       CPE OS Name: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.2:GA:server
            Kernel: Linux 3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64
      Architecture: x86-64
# 
# echo new.host.name > /etc/hostname 
# sleep 3
# hostname
new.host.name
# hostnamectl
   Static hostname: new.host.name
         Icon name: computer-vm
           Chassis: vm
        Machine ID: 9c5f29222baa4fb99b755838e1bb5fcb
           Boot ID: 60f88d7784024a8881ae341e3746f6ad
    Virtualization: kvm
  Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.2 (Maipo)
       CPE OS Name: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.2:GA:server
            Kernel: Linux 3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64
      Architecture: x86-64
#
Comment 3 Lukáš Nykrýn 2016-07-26 11:32:11 UTC 
Looks like duplicate of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1356188

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1356188 ***
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