localhost fudged?

[Zero-Override]

hi all :)

well i just killed a few processes on my comp and now my localhost name is... fudged i guess :D it used to be "localhost" and no it's "*\377" (this should have not been altered by the processes i killed, though i also killed a "- :0" which was being run by root but looked strange to me)

anyway... how do i change it back? :p

(p.s. i did try a few searches on the forum but since i don't really know what to actually look for it didn't find anything :) )

[Zero-Override]

fixed it :)
reapplied the settings manually (cause it did have the normal settings listed, it just didn't load them or something)

anyway, for the GUI's:
system-config-network
file > save

done!!

[stevea]

See if /etc/hosts is OK and has a line like:
127.0.0.1 localhost localhosts.local localhost.localdomain
See the /etc/sysconfig/network has a line like
HOSTNAME=
or else HOSTNAME=reasonableName

Then reboot

[Zero-Override]

update:
it's not working =/ it only works very temporarily

# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6



NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain


these are the files :)

i also already rebooted
when i save the settings in system-config-network (i went gui for this :p) and then restart the networking service it works, up until the moment where i change users and it's all gone =/