[techtalk] Debian system host name

Nicole Zimmerman colby at wsu.edu
Wed May 9 07:14:30 EST 2001


I believe etherconf sets your hostname if you have that installed.

Also the command `hostname` :o).

At 08:30 on May 9, Judith Elaine Bush combined all the right letters to say:

> I'm changing the host name on my debian potato box (since dynamic dns
> died at justlinux.com -- i've gone with zoneedit.com). 
> 
> When I last set up the box, I just answered an installation question
> about the host name. Does Debian have a simple hostname update script?
> 
> I'm grepping through /etc/* and /etc/*/* to find instances to change
> by hand -- but Debian often has a better way than by hand....





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