I think he actually meant that after you reboot the change dissapear.
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 07:01:19PM +0300, Amir Tal wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 May 2002 18:38, you wrote:
> > On Tue, May 07, 2002, Amir Tal wrote about "Re: Nicknames for my Hostname":
> > > > However, the effect of the "hostname" command is only until the next
> > > > reboot.
> > >
> > > not 100% correct. logout and login are enough, at least for mandrake and
> > > redhat.
> >
> > Enough for what? Do you mean that after a login/logout the hostname gets
> > reverted to "localhost"? Or that editing /etc/hosts and logging out is
> > enough to set the hostname?
>
> using the "hostname" command is enough. other users will be effected when they
> login the next time :
>
> [root@whatsup tal]# hostname
> whatsup.homelinux.org
> [root@whatsup tal]# hostname nadav.look.at.this
> [root@whatsup tal]# hostname
> nadav.look.at.this
> [root@whatsup tal]# hostname whatsup.homelinux.org
> [root@whatsup tal]# hostname
> whatsup.homelinux.org
> [root@whatsup tal]#
>
> after "hostname nadav.look.at.this" the hostname DID change, and it will stay
> that way until the next time it will be changed. reboot will NOT set it back
> to localhost.
>
>
> > I find that very hard to believe. It is not the "Unix Way". And what
> > happens if two people are logged in at the same time? Logging out (whatever
> > that means) should not have such effects.
>
> like i said - other users will be effected in their next login.
> this is RH72 btw... same goes for mandrake 8.2 and suse 7.3 .
> didnt try on anything else (yet)
>
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