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Setting hostname On CentOS 7 Server

Posted on March 15, 2017 by admin

CentOS 7 come with a command hostnamectl to query and change the system hostname and related settings. Set hostname To set hostname, run Example [root@localhost ~]# hostnamectl set-hostname server2.hosthat.com [root@localhost ~]# hostname server2.hosthat.com [root@localhost ~]# See also HostName

Changing computer name in ubuntu

Posted on October 8, 2009 by admin

To change computer name in ubuntu, run sudo echo “computer-new-name” > /etc/hostname Now you need to reboot to get the computer name changed.

Setting HostName in Linux

Posted on May 19, 2005 by admin

To set host name on a CentOS/RHEL/Fedora Server to serverX.hosthat.com Edit /etc/sysconfig/network Find Replace With Edit /etc/hosts Add To find servers main IP, use ifconfig, it should be IP of eth0 in most cases. Add hostname to /etc/hostname Setting HostName