[TriLUG] An easy one...

[Benjamin Reed]

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On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 14:23, Chris Knowles wrote:
> OK, here's a question that has been tickling at the back of my head for s=
ome=20
> time. =20
>=20
> How do you change the hostname of a computer, permanently, from the=20
> command-line?  I know how to do it from the GUI, but how do you do it fro=
m=20
> the console?
>=20
> See, wasn't that horribly easy?  Don't you think less of me now?

on redhat/mandrake/probably others you do:

  hostname <new-hostname>
  vi /etc/sysconfig/network
     [change the HOSTNAME line]

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Ben Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick (ranger@befunk.com)
http://defiance.dyndns.org/ / http://radio.scenespot.org/
...if humanoids eat chicken, then obviously they'd eat their own
species.  Otherwise they'd just be picking on the chickens. -- Kryten

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