RedHat 7.3 and latest Houdini distro.

I can't license Houdini. hkey fails to obtain licenses and the reason for it is that my hostname is invalid. It's localhost.localdomain right now.
I've had this very same problem some time ago but back then I was using GNOME and I was able to quickly find where I can change the hostname. Now I'm using KDE and have been trying to find that damn place(where to change hostname) for couple of days now.
Somebody.
Please.
Whare the heck is it?

su
<password>
vi /etc/hosts


Then edit the file:

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
199..299.12 malabar.foobar.com malabar
etc…

Why does linux use that crappy default… :? The very first thing I change after a fresh install of linux.

Yup, it's lame. I was under the impression that it's the networking setup stuff that ships with Redhat that's responsible. They've always had trouble getting this working properly. Other Linux distros work differently I believe.

Cheers,

J.C.

OK
I edited the “hosts” file in /etc
Now it looks like this


127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.0.1 blackbox


As you can see I only added another line and didn't touch the first one.
After that I edited “network” file that resides in /etc/sysconfig
Instead of

NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=localhost

it now reads:

NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=blackbox


Houdini now starts just fine but…. when I restart computer it than fails to start “sendmail” during boot and another thing is that when I try to render anything from Houdini,
it doesn't start rendering and in the shell window(the one I started Houdini from) I get
this error

Warning: host blackbox is too busy to render remotely


:shock:

What now?
Help!

Maybe try completely replacing localhost.localdomain to blackbox in your /etc/hosts

That's strange! The problem with rendering uppears only when I'm logged in as root!