Re: Got a machine name problem

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Gene Heskett wrote: 
> Greetings all;
> 
> I have been working on a lower priority project, replacing some atom 
> powered machines with i5 powered Dells. Installing buster but something 
> is overriding my efforts to rename the machine after the install because 
> I'd like to replace "lathe" with "TLM" for The Little Monster.
> 
> Nothing I do survives a reboot, so what do I do to actually rename the 
> machine and make it stick? Hopefully without losiing the networking 
> which I don't have after the last reboot, probably because of the 
> current volatility of interface names.

Typically, edit /etc/hostname and reboot, or run 
hostname -F /etc/hostname
for immediate effect.

Check to see if you have assigned a name via dhcp or in
/etc/hosts.

-dsr-