[leafnode-list] Re: FQDN and systemd

[Doug Laidlaw]

On Sun, 14 Dec 2014 23:36:43 +0100
Matěj Cepl <mcepl at cepl.eu> wrote:

> Apparently everything has to change in the world of systemd, but 
> this I have give its authors at least they provide 
> well-documented nice tools. So in the brave new world of 
> systemd, you are not supposed to edit and exactly write down 
> values in /etc/hostname (or /etc/sysconfig/network or somewhere 
> else), but rather to use hostnamectl(1).
> 
> Apparently 
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/System_Administrators_Guide/s2_Set_All_the_Hostnames.html 
> just plain
> 
> # hostnamectl set-hostname name
> 
> is what’s required.
> 
> I just thought it might be helpful to add this to 
> README-FQDN.tex.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Matěj
> 

Thanks for the tip.  I am running Mageia, which is a fork of a fork of
RH.  I always set up my FQDN during installation of the OS, but once I
had to do it manually, by editing /etc/sysconfig/network.

Doug.