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Fedora 18 Hostname Changes

In Fedora 18, the hostname is now stored in /etc/hostname rather then in the HOSTNAME= line /etc/sysconfig/network. There are now three distinguished hostnames in use with Fedora 18. A high-level pretty free-form hostname The static hostname, i.e. the kernel hostname Possibly a transient temporary hostname A pretty hostname can include all kinds of special characters, e.g. “Murphy’s Laptop”. There are few restrictions on the characters used. Note that the static and transient hostnames are limited to the usually accepted characters of Internet domain names. A transient hostname might be assigned temporarily via a network configuration. The hostname might revert back