Hostname command issue

Linux and Unix-Like Red Hat
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Hi All,

I am using redhat Linux 5.2.2 on vmware. I have created VM Machine using kickstart & rest 10 machines i created using vmware cloning.

On the base machine which i installed from kickstart its showing FQDN using hostname --fqdn but cloned machines are showing hosts name i have chnaged all the file which i know very well as below.
I chnaged ipaddress,hostname & MAC ID of the new system.

/etc/sysconfig/network
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
/etc/hosts

I have provided FQDN in /etc/hosts file.

Can anyone suggests what can be the issue.

Regards

Ankit

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the fqdn option is somewhat nebulous... so if you're not using DNS and not use NIS then it will get the value (supposedly) from whatever you supplied in /etc/hosts. You can do strace -f hostname --fqdn to try to determine what it is trying to use.