Machine name

[Bill Marcum]

On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 07:37:36 +0200, Gruneberg 
  <kaosboss at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> OK stupid move of the week.... busy setting up a small ubuntu server on 
> my LAN and when building the pc to to act as file server, my stupid 
> trick was not to set a machine name during the build, and I would like 
> to change it to fall in line with the other pc's on the LAN.
>
> Where do I do that?
>
Use the "hostname" command to change the name immediately, and put the 
name in /etc/hostname to make it permanent.  If you use a static IP 
address, you can add it to /etc/hosts.

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