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[Jacob Mansfield]

On 09/01/11 08:57, Colin Law wrote:
> When installing Ubuntu there is a field for entry of the machine name,
> which is defaulted to a value the installer chooses.  I don't remember
> exactly where that is, but I do know that it is easy to miss, I have
> more than once not noticed it and ended up with machine name I did not
> want.
>
> Colin

The hostname is set in the installation when the default user is created.
assuming ubuntu desktop with a user name of Peter Parker the hostname
becomes Peter-Desktop by default.
this setting can be changed by editing /etc/hostname and rebooting

-- 
Jacob Mansfield
Programmer

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