Permanent hostname change on RedHat based systems

RedHat based system use the file /etc/sysconfig/network to read the saved hostname at system boot. This is set using the init script /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=»plain.domainname.com» GATEWAY=»192.168.0.1″ GATEWAYDEV=»eth0″ FORWARD_IPV4=»yes»