Hi Terry,
> Maybe my memory is faulty, but my recollection of doing this on
> earlier Unix systems, (like Solaris), is that the hostname went into
> the file called hostname (or similar) and that did it (after a
> reboot).
Debian/Ubuntu still have that.
$ cat /etc/hostname
orac
$ hostname
orac
$ hostname -f
orac
$
Note, the -f output is wrong here, I haven't got it to be correct yet
which is annoying as some programs, e.g. postfix, rightly expect it to
be a fully-qualified domain name (FQDN).
Cheers,
Ralph.
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