Changing my computer name

Maverick1182 · 08-22-2004, 11:29 AM

I have looked in previous threads to find how to permanently change my computer name to something cooler. Unfortuantely, most of them suggest "hostname <newname here>"
but that only works for each boot session and resets itself on startup.

the other suggestions seem very complicated and changing lots of files.

just wanted to know if there is a standard way of changing my computer name from "00-45454-545454 etc...." to something meaningful?

Mara · 08-22-2004, 11:38 AM

If you have such a hostname it means it's assigned by your ISP (it seems you're using DHCP). In your situation the easiest solution would be to add the command changing your hostname to starting scripts. An example of such script is /etc/rc.d/rc.local. You can add something like 'hostname mymachine' at the end of it.