Here are some example configuration files:
/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.254 server1.example.com server1
/etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=server1.example.com GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.0.254 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NBOOT=yes
If you change these values (see example below), you can restart networking without rebooting using the command(s):
# service network restart # hostname server1.example.com
If you are in the Gnome or KDE user interface, you must also restart it with the commands:
No reboot is required.
For example, if you needed to change 'server1' to 'webserver1', you can modify the following aspects in the files mentioned above (then follow the other instructions):
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the Fully Qualified Domain Name and the Alias in /etc/hosts
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change the HOSTNAME= line in /etc/sysconfig/network
/etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.254 webserver1.example.com webserver1
/etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=webserver1.example.com GATEWAY=192.168.0.1