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bpont

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Registered: 2010-03-24

Posts: 161

Hostname not recognized

Ever since doing a system upgrade and rebooting a few hours ago, my hostname has mysteriously changed at the command prompt.  I made no system changes, only did an upgrade and reboot.  I've never had this issue before.

The prompt should display:

username@unique-hostname

But instead it displays:

[username@000d561647fd ~]$

My /etc/rc.conf

HOSTNAME="unique-hostname"

My /etc/hosts

#<ip-address>    <hostname.domain.org>    <hostname>
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost unique-hostname   
::1        localhost.localdomain    localhost unique-hostname

I'm at a loss for what's wrong or how to fix it.

kurych

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From: Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2011-12-07

Posts: 27

Re: Hostname not recognized

talk in console "sudo hostname unique-hostname". But I don't sure what to be after reboot. Say us later

Last edited by kurych (2011-12-10 15:20:25)

bpont

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Registered: 2010-03-24

Posts: 161

Re: Hostname not recognized

talk in console "sudo hostname unique-hostname". But I don't sure what to be after reboot. Say us later

sudo: hostname: command not found

EDIT: Sorry, I had to install inetutils to execute hostname

I ran the command successfully, and hostname shows the change but will the change remain after a reboot?

EDIT: OK, that seemed to do the trick...still worked after a reboot.  Thanks.

Last edited by bpont (2011-12-10 16:54:35)

Mustard

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From: Noblesville, Indiana

Registered: 2010-03-02

Posts: 39

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Re: Hostname not recognized

Mark the thread as solved?