Re: Got a machine name problem
On Wednesday 24 February 2021 06:13:16 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 12:58:33PM -0500, 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.
> hostnamectl should do it - and it will be permanent
>
> hostnamectl set-hostname [whatever_you_want_goes_here]
>
But sudo that doesn't give it a domainname even if you rename it fqdn
style, so I put it back.
> All best,
Thanks Andy C.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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