problem with hostname

[pkaplan1 at comcast.net]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Roller" <froller at tnclimited.com> 
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2009 8:53:19 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: problem with hostname 

>On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 03:19 +0000, pkaplan1 at comcast.net wrote: 
>> To what? 
>> 
>> <username>@(none):~$ cat /etc/hostname 
>> <hostname> 
>> <username>@(none):~$ 
>> 
>> and still <hostname> is not retained thru reboot. 
>> Paul 
> 
>k. In a terminal type the following command. 
> 
>sudo gedit /etc/hostname 
> 
>enter your password and a graphical editor comes up. delete all that is 
>there AND then type whatever you want to name your computer without the 
>angle brackets: 
> 
>froller at metis:~$ hostname 
>metis 
> 
>Save the file and close. You may need to restart (or restart the 
>network) for the change to take affect. IF this does not fix the issue 
>then check your environment variables. 

All fine and well, but when I reboot the hostname isn't retained. 

What environment variable would I be looking for and setting to what? 
Paul 

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