CentOS - Oct 2011 - CentOS 6: hostname and timezone

Hello,

I've purchased a new dedicated CentOS 6.0 / 64 bit server
and have 2 minor problems please:

1) The "hostname" is reported as CentOS-60-64-minimal at CLI -
     eventhough I've edited /etc/hosts and changed the 2nd line:

127.0.0.1 localhost
176.9.123.123  preferans

2) Why is /etc/localtime a regular file? Should I maybe

rm /etc/localtime
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime

   Why isn't it done by the CentOS 6.0 install?

Thank you
Alex

For changing the hostname without restart use the hostname command:
hostname newhost.domain.com

To keep the new hostname between restarts edit /etc/sysconfig/network, and
change the hostname there.

Also its a good idea to check /etc/hosts, it can contain the old hostname,
change/delete it.
 John Kennedy



On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 15:18, Alexander Farber
<alexander.farber at gmail.com>wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've purchased a new dedicated CentOS 6.0 / 64 bit server
> and have 2 minor problems please:
>
> 1) The "hostname" is reported as CentOS-60-64-minimal at CLI -
>     eventhough I've edited /etc/hosts and changed the 2nd line:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 176.9.123.123  preferans
>
> 2) Why is /etc/localtime a regular file? Should I maybe
>
> rm /etc/localtime
> ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime
>
>   Why isn't it done by the CentOS 6.0 install?
>
> Thank you
> Alex
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On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 15:22, John Kennedy <skebi69 at gmail.com> wrote:
> For changing the hostname without restart use the hostname command:
> hostname newhost.domain.com
>
> To keep the new hostname between restarts edit /etc/sysconfig/network, and
> change the hostname there.
>
> Also its a good idea to check /etc/hosts, it can contain the old hostname,
> change/delete it.
>  John Kennedy
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 15:18, Alexander Farber <alexander.farber at
gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've purchased a new dedicated CentOS 6.0 / 64 bit server
>> and have 2 minor problems please:
>>
>> 1) The "hostname" is reported as CentOS-60-64-minimal at CLI
-
>>     eventhough I've edited /etc/hosts and changed the 2nd line:
>>
>> 127.0.0.1 localhost
>> 176.9.123.123  preferans
>>
>>
Sorry for the top post...Hit send before I looked and changed it...Damn web
interface...
John

Thank you all,

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:26 PM, lists-centos
<replies-lists-b3z2-centos at listmail.innovate.net>
wrote:
> ?2 - you can do the symbolic link, but i believe that RH moved
> ? ? away from that approach for some reason. the appropriate
> ? ? TZ file is copied to /etc/localtime when the TZ is selected
> ? ? on install or changed.
is there maybe a command for setting TZ "in a CentOS way"?

I've looked for redhat-* centos-* system-* in /sbin and /usr/sbin

Regards
Alex