[Gllug] Changing hostname without rebooting

[Alex]

As well as some of the other suggestions, restarting xinetd wouldn't hurt
either:

service xinetd restart



> Hi All,
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks
>
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