[TriLUG] An easy one...

[Andrew Perrin]

Just the hostname?

hostname <newname>

as root. FQDN is harder.

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On Thu, 2 May 2002, Chris Knowles wrote:

> OK, here's a question that has been tickling at the back of my head for some 
> time.  
> 
> How do you change the hostname of a computer, permanently, from the 
> command-line?  I know how to do it from the GUI, but how do you do it from 
> the console?
> 
> See, wasn't that horribly easy?  Don't you think less of me now?
> 
> CJK
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