Changing Hostname

[soulbrothax831]

Hi everyone,

I'm new to the linux world and I've been using Mandrake 10.1 for a few days now. I just have one quick question (out of the many I have for maybe later) about how to change my hostname. Probably a simple question that I should be able to answer myself, but I haven't been able to figure it out yet. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

[dtodd]

Try hostname <whatever> as root user:

$
$ hostname
localhost
$
$ su -

# hostname myhost
# hostname
myhost
#

[soulbrothax831]

Thanks for the reply dtodd. Heh, I knew it should have been something as easy as that...

[jen1963]

I tried that and it didn't work on my 10.1 system

[soulbrothax831]

That's odd. I did find something else and I have read some other posts about changing the hostname. You could try editing the network file:

$  su
type password
#  cd /etc/sysconfig
#  vi network

Then once in the network file, press "a" (to be able to insert something) and add the line HOSTNAME="your_hostname". Once that's done, press escape so you are unable to insert anything else and then enter this in on your keyboard :wq (make sure you get the colon in). Restart your PC and, cross your fingers, the hostname should be changed...


Hope this helps.