Hi On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 01:45:11PM -0500, Jon N wrote: > 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?
In general, if you're changing host name, *ALL* references to the old name should be tweaked. I would recommend: # sed --in-place=.bak -e 's/localhost-01/yournewname/g' $(grep -lr localhost-01 /etc) (followed by a reboot to completely eradicate all memory of the old name). Some packages, e.g. require additional attention here. Hope this helps -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131221193715.GA31023@hawking
