[Bug 1375252] Re: [SRU] Hostname change is not preserved across reboot on Azure Ubuntu VMs

[Joe Clifford]

On 10/06/15 13:31, Dan Watkins wrote:
> Hi Joe,
>
> On 10/06/15 10:52, Joe Clifford wrote:
>> Apologies for the tardy feedback. Many thanks to all involved,
>> gratefully and much appreciated. From my perspective, this issue is now
>> resolved.
>
> Thanks for the feedback. Great to hear that we've resolved this for you!
>
>> I've just tried this on a freshly deployed Trusty VM in Azure -  a
>> change to the hostname with 'hostnamectl' is now preserved when the VM
>> is rebooted.
>>
>> I would like to point out though that, if not editing the /etc/hostname
>> file directly, the 'hostnamectl' command must be used to set the
>> hostname; using the 'hostname' command doesn't work (presumably because
>> the hostname command doesn't change /etc/hostname).
>
> As per the 'hostname' manpage:
>
> When  called  with one argument ..., the commands set the host name ...
> Note,  that  this is  effective  only  until  the  next  reboot.   Edit
> /etc/hostname for permanent change.
>
> So that sounds like expected behaviour. :)
Indeed! It's been a long time since I read that manpage.

Thanks again.

>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
>

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