# "hostname" Module Does Not Work on RHEL 7 **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Developer\ **Tags:** rhel\ **Created:** [April 28, 2014, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/hostname-module-does-not-work-on-rhel-7/15101 "2014-04-28T15:33:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dustin\_C\_Hatch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/96bed5/32.png) [@Dustin\_C\_Hatch](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dustin_C_Hatch)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/hostname-module-does-not-work-on-rhel-7/15101/1 "2014-04-28T15:33:09Z")
I've got some RHEL 7 machines already that need to be managed by Ansible. So far, the only problem I've found is that the "hostname" module fails to permanently set the hostname of the machine. This is because the HOSTNAME variable in /etc/sysconfig/network no longer has any effect, as RHEL 7 uses systemd. Looking through the code of the "hostname" module, I don't see any good way to fix this. It is using the "load\_platform\_subclass" utility function, which only works on the distribution name and ignores the version number. Are there any current plans for being able to support different versions of distributions independently? What are your thoughts on how this should be done within Ansible? Right now, only "hostname" seems affected, but there could be others, now or in the future, so fixing it there doesn't seem to be the best option. Regards, Dustin C. Hatch [http://dustin.hatch.name/](http://dustin.hatch.name/) ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan1)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2014, 9:19pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/hostname-module-does-not-work-on-rhel-7/15101/2 "2014-04-28T21:19:42Z")
You can look at what we do for returning OS version facts in the “setup” module… Fixing it in the module that has the problem is 100% the right option.