[Gllug] Changing hostname without rebooting

[Jason Clifford]

On Mon, 19 May 2003, Neil Fryer wrote:

> I need to change the hostname on a server RH7.3, without rebooting the box,
> not I have done:
> 
> hostname -v LHR-UK-B-WALKERS-APP
> 
> And edited /etc/sysconfig/network
> 
> And then /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart
> 
> BUt the hostname has not changed in all places, for instance,
> /var/log/secure still shows the old hostname, how the hell do I get around
> this?

It's not an error - it's simply that syslog (and others) will take the 
hostname when it starts and wont waste time requerying something that is 
almost always very static.

If you restart syslog it will pick up the change. The same should be true 
of any other service with the same issue.

Jason Clifford
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