Hostname

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Revision as of 09:31, 23 June 2011

$ sudo echo "your-hostname" > /etc/hostname 
$ sudo hostname -F /etc/hostname

If it exists, edit the file /etc/default/dhcpcd to comment out the "SET_HOSTNAME" directive:

file: /etc/default/dhcpcd

SET_HOSTNAME='yes'

file:/etc/hosts

127.0.0.1        localhost.localdomain    localhost
192.168.0.111    blah.some-domain.com     your-domain

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 === Update <code>/etc/hosts</code> ===
--Replace <code>192.168.0.111</code> with the ip address of the server.
+# Replace <code>192.168.0.111</code> with the ip address of the server.
--Replace <code>blah.some-domain.com</code> with the domain name of the server.
+# Replace <code>blah.some-domain.com</code> with the domain name of the server.
--replace <code>your-domain</code> with the hostname of the server.
+# replace <code>your-domain</code> with the hostname of the server.
   file:<code>/etc/hosts</code>