I don't know how to search for this and that is why I asked for it (all my searches did not reveal any relevant information).
I have a Fedora 18 server that looks like this:
[root@dhcp-192-168-5-100 ~]#
I want to change that to:
[root@server1 ~]#
Currently, this machine is set to get IP through DHCP, but that is not the IP address of the machine and that is why I need to change the CLI to something more relevant.
Thank you
you can type "hostname HOSTNAME" where HOSTNAME is the new name you want. The next time you log in / connect via ssh, that's what you'll see.
- Edit
/etc/sysconfig/network
and change/add HOSTNAME variable like so HOSTNAME=server1.domain.com
After restart it should have server1.
- Edit /etc/hosts and add
server1
and server1.domain.com
to 127.0.0.1 line, so it will look like: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost server1 server1.domain.com
More about network file you can read here:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/15/html/Deployment_Guide/ch-The_sysconfig_Directory.html#s2-sysconfig-network
Just found this and this is described pretty good.
[root@dhcp-192-168-5-100 ~]# hostname MYHOSTNAME
Change hostname in Feodora
- Add "yournewhostname" into /etc/sysconfig/network in the HOSTNAME
field..
- Add "yournewhostname" into /etc/hosts for 127.0.0.1
- echo "yournewhostname" > /proc/sys/kernel/hostname or service hostname
IMPORTANT: logout and log back in.