> On Jun 29, 2019, at 3:37 AM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
>
> That conversion insists the hostname is realtimepi. In stretch I could
> fix it to the name I'm used to by setting hostname, then sudo chattr +i
> hostname, and it would stick over a reboot, but not in buster, despite
> the immutable bit being set, its been reset to realtimepi after a
> reboot, this despite an lsattr still showing the i bit is still set!
Try hostnamectl:
# sudo hostnamectl set-hostname HOSTNAME
where HOSTNAME is your new hostname.
Adrian