Re: Newbie Hostname Change

[bmarcum@iglou.com (Bill Marcum)]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 04:50:26PM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My friend installed Debian on his computer and I'm supposed to be
> admining it as a server. THings are going well (except I keep
> mistyping shutdown and killing the server), but there is one problem:
> the hostname.
> 
> He typed Ask4 instead of ask4, which is a problem.
> 
> I assume I can change this with the hostname command, but I want to be sure
> there arn't any additional steps beyond this.
> 
The hostname command will only change it temporarily.  For a permanent 
change, edit /etc/hostname.


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