How To Change Hostname

  1. Open a Fake-Rootshell:
    sudo -s
  2. Change Hostname Part 1:
    vim /etc/hostname
  3. Set Hostname:
    hostname -F /etc/hostname
  4. Change Hostname Part 2:
    vim /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1  localhost
127.0.1.1  hostname
hostname.txt · Last modified: 2010/07/01 16:38 (external edit)
CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported chimeric.de = chi`s home Creative Commons License Valid CSS Driven by DokuWiki do yourself a favour and use a real browser - get firefox!! Recent changes RSS feed Valid XHTML 1.0