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nroza
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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 10:05 pm Post subject: How do you set the hostname?

Pretty simply, I thought, until I tried looking for an answer. Does anybody know how to change the hostname to something other than "localhost"?[/u]

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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 10:08 pm Post subject:

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Code:

# nano -w /etc/conf.d/hostname

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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 10:23 pm Post subject:

Thanks a bunch, Cyrillic. This definitely beats typing [code] hostname mybox [/code] every time I reboot!

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