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Re: HOWTO change your computer name



On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 17:03, Hamid wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I left the default name 'debian' for my linux box during installation. I 
> was wondering if I can change it now something else.
> Thanks
> Hamid

Sure, I did it a while back.

hostname(1) is part of the answer.  However, there are a bunch of conf
files that also must be changed.  Too bad that grepping for debian
returns 85 jillion matches...

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