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I'm confused on how to change the name of my machine from localhost. when I type "hostname testmachine" it changes the name to testmachine, but when I reboot, the name is changed back to localhost
I have edited the /etc/hosts file, but this doesn't seem to do anything.
Can anybody tell me how to change the name of my machine to something else (ie so the prompt reads:
[endfx@testmachine /]$ )
Thanks
sorry, I should have mentioned this above
I don't have the file /etc/hostname
Thats whats confusing me. It seems to be getting the hostname from somewhere else everytime I boot.
As mentioned above I changed /etc/hosts and used the hostname command to change it, neither of which seem to be working. I'm using mandrake9.1
Am I missing something very simple here? thanks
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