Hostname questions

["Jean-Christian Imbeault" <jean_christian@example.com>]

Starting a new thread since the topic has moved (rightly so) from Apache 
troubles to hostname questions.

I just edited /etc/sysconfig/network and added

HOSTNAME=linux

I tried opening a new shell (using the Gnome) but no terminal comes up. For 
my education why is this?

I'm sure if I reboot this problem will go away, but I was under the 
impression that Linux only needed to be rebooted for *major* changes.

Jc
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