Coding Friends » hostname http://www.codingfriends.com Coding Friends, place for developers. Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:11:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 changing the hostname http://www.codingfriends.com/index.php/2010/02/09/changing-the-hostname/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=changing-the-hostname http://www.codingfriends.com/index.php/2010/02/09/changing-the-hostname/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:17:34 +0000 genux http://www.codingfriends.com/?p=678 To change the hostname of a linux distribution you can either change the hostname on-the-fly, but it does not restore it after a reboot. To change the hostname on-the-fly you can do

echo "your new hostname" > /proc/sys/kernel/hostname

on a ubuntu/debian system to alter the hostname after a reboot you can alter the

/etc/hostname

file, if you cannot find the hostname file there, you can search for the file within the /etc directory by

grep -R "your hostname" /etc

it will display a few files, but you should find out where your hostname is set, normally either within /etc/sysconfig or /etc/network directories.

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