problem with hostname

[pkaplan1 at comcast.net]

To what? 

<username> @(none):~$ cat /etc/hostname 
<hostn ame> 
<username>@(none):~$ 

and still <hostname> is not retained thru reboot. 
Paul 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Roller" <froller at tnclimited.com> 
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 
Sent: Monday, July 6, 2009 11:06:50 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: problem with hostname 

On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 02:51 +0000, pkaplan1 at comcast.net wrote: 
> How can I restore <hostname> permanently? 

Using whatever editor your comfortable with edit /etc/hostname as root: 
sudo vi /etc/hostname 



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