[mythtv-users] Hostname for Frontend machine

[Michael T. Dean]

Reordering so A's follow Q's...

Michael Tiller wrote:

> On 5/27/05, *James Oltman* <cnlibmyth at gmail.com 
> <mailto:cnlibmyth at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 5/27/05, Carl Fongheiser <carlfongheiser at gmail.com
>     <mailto:carlfongheiser at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > On 5/27/05, James Oltman < cnlibmyth at gmail.com
>     <mailto:cnlibmyth at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > > So as I was rebuilding my frontend last night (FC3 2.6.11-1.27) I
>     > > typed in the wrong hostname.  It is named hoNetheater instead of
>     > > hoMetheater.  How do I change this?
>     >
>     > Simple;  just edit /etc/sysconfig/network, and change the line that
>     > starts with HOSTNAME= to what you want the hostname to be.  You can
>     > then reboot, or use the hostname command to change the hostname for
>     > the running system.
>
>     That certainly fixed it!  Sorry for the nooB question.  Thanks guys!!
>
> I had a similar problem, but renaming also seemed to affect something 
> in the mysql configuration.  In other words, I had set everything up 
> and then decided that I didn't like the host name.  Changing it seemed 
> to break everything.  Does this sound like it should happen?

Not if you do it correctly...

22.15 Changing your hostname
http://mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.15

In the OP's case, either his system was set up to use localhost (i.e. in 
which case changing the hostname wouldn't affect MythTV) or he hadn't 
configured MythTV before the change.

Mike