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

[Vanco, Don]

wplug-admin at wplug.org wrote:
>>> 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.
>> 
>> 	Actually, if it's what it sounds like it's pretty standard fare -
>> "machine name" (i.e. hostname) -vs- FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain
>> Name) My machine is lappydappydoo but it's FQDN is
>> lappydappydoo.agilysys.com - some internal networks can get even
>> more convoluted than that.... 
>> 
>> 	In an interesting move I have been asked not to generate any machine
>> names with "crap" in them.  I deal with a lot of Windoze machines,
>> and had a bad habit calling them things like "vanco_crap_box"...
>> apparently our NT SysAdmins (ha! oxymoron there...) took
>> offense.....  So I now use "carp". 
> 
> 	Y'know, you could also edit /etc/sysconfig/network, and
> put just
> the hostname in there. Usually I edit /sbin/dhclients-script
> so that it
> doesn't mutilate my /etc/resolv.conf, and specify the domain there.

	Yes - or, as stated, you could just run redhat-config-network and
let it take care of _all_ that.  I usually don't start folks off on hand
editing config files when they're simply looking to get their first install
functional...

Don