Setting up eth0 from CLI

[Compunuts]

Actually, the host name is set in /etc/sysconfig/network file rather than /etc/hosts. /etc/hosts is used for host name lookup locally.

Here is my /etc/sysconfig/network file looks like.

NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME='mysystem'
GATEWAY=192.168.80.1

If you change the hostname part of it and reload networking module, you should be on your way.

[vvx]

Now see, if you were using SuSE you could have used Yast2 to do that! Yep, has a CLI mode.

[Schotty]

for quite some time, RedHat had a CLI based one. Run /sbin/setup and it has tools for reconfiguring X, sound, NIC, and timezone.

[rick420]

<shameless drake plug> mandrake 9 can do that </end shameless plug>