Changing Hostname?
I recently installed Jessie on a new computer. Now that I have the
system up and running I decided that I would like to have a different
hostname than the rather unimaginative 'localhost-01' I picked during
install. I used the "mate-network-admin" utility to change it, and
checked /etc/hostname and saw that the change was reflected there
also.
Then I rebooted. The display manager wouldn't load, leaving me with
an almost blank screen (there was a blinking cursor in the upper left
corner). I switched to another virtual terminal, edited /etc/hostname
back and was able to boot normally. Although when I just opened
"mate-network-admin" again it still had the new name in there.
Apparently mate-network-manager changes /etc/hostname, but changing
/etc/hostname doesn't reverse it completely??? (I'm thinking I must
have done something wrong, because that doesn't make sense).
Anyway, the main question is, how do i change the hostname for my system?
I did do some searching online, and so far I found that I have to change:
/etc/hostname
/etc/hosts
then run the command
sysctl kernel hostname=NEW_HOSTNAME.
There were also directions on how to change config files for some
specific packages. Am I missing anything?
Thanks,
Jon
Reply to: