[wplug] dumb question of the day? how do I name a machine in rh9?

[Jennifer Landefeld]

Thanks Don,

Turns out the question was even dumber than I thought at first. This is 
what I get for coming from the Mac part of the world -- I'm used to 
actually naming the *machine* itself which is what shows on the 
network. There is actually a similar but longer name that gets 
registered in the DHCP database of course. I am precisely in the 
process of getting the requested name registered with our facilities 
for the DHCP route.

Cheers,
Jenn

On Thursday, January 8, 2004, at 03:03  PM, Vanco, Don wrote:

> wplug-admin at wplug.org wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Would that I could just show up at the install fest for all of this.
>> <sigh>
>>
>> So, my dumb question. Now that I have the basic rh9 installed (and am
>> tweaking with updates, etc), did I somehow miss a step to net
>> the name
>> of the machine as it would be recognized on, say the CMU network? I
>> have been requested to give it a specific name (basically in CMU CS
>> naming convention if that makes sense).
>>
>> Thanks too to Beth Lynn for burning disks for me to enable to loading
>> of this unit!!!
>
> Method one: (if you get an address via DHCP)
> 	Contact your network administrator and have them make it part of
> your DHCP information
> 	(or follow method two)
>
> Method Two:
> 	redhat-config-network
>
> 	There is a tab to assign hostname.
>
> 	If/when either one or two is completed:  "service network restart"
>
>
> 	If you do this in X, exit immediately and restart X to avoid
> "interesting behavior".
>
> Don
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