This is a really really dumb question and I dont really know how to ask this because i dont know technical names.

I installed Debian on a computer a few weeks back - its Debian Sarge, if that matters - and I was setting it up for my kids because they like the huge selection of games (they are 7 & 8 years old). Well, after installation they decided they would rather have a windows box or some crap - i dont remember.

Well, when I set this computer up I gave it a name 'debkids'. I name all my computers. I got 'debdesk', 'debserv', 'debserv2' etc.

I ended up using this computer as one of my servers. Its been part of network for about 2 or 3 weeks now, but its always had this name 'debkids' and its starting to irritate me every time I see it.

This isn't a crucial thing or anything - i use ip addresses instead of comp names on my network. Its just its getting on my nerves to see it now.

See what I mean.. That part.

How in the hell do I change it ? I've never changed a comp name once i've set it during installation.

And why we're at it, what's up with that date & time ? The time on all my machines is correct. I just double checked them all... weird.

Linux debkids 2.6.8-2-386 #1 Thu May 19 17:40:50 JST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux

Go to the following files and change them to reflect what you would like your machine to be called:

/etc/hostname
/etc/hosts
/etc/mailname
/etc/motd

Those are probably the only files on the system that reflect the hostname of the machine anywhere, as I assume that this machine is probably not running bind or anything like that.

also, you can temporarily change it using
If you just want to change the ones that you see when SSHing into it, you can just edit /etc/hostname, but this might give you mixed hostnames