hostname

[Thilo Six]

Stew Schneider wrote the following on 25.05.2007 03:37
> OK...this is probably just real dumb, but how do you change the host name?
> 
> sudo hostname george will change the host to george, but then you get an
> error from gethostname(). Changing /etc/hostname and rebooting will,
> iirc, do it, but that seems a kludge.
> 
> stew

in case of changing the hostname you nee to edit:
/etc/hosts 	and
/etc/hostname

but i dunno if they take place immediately.
probably reboot is needed.



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