Changing machine's name

Andy Green andy at warmcat.com
Sat Mar 24 09:21:09 UTC 2007


Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> After today's updates, the command line is
> 
> [psmith at unknown-00-14-85-38-2c-93 ~]$
> 
> and before it was
> 
> [psmith at mypc ~]$
> 
> How can I replace unknown-00-14-85-38-2c-93 with mypc?

Looks like your ISP or local DHCP server is setting your hostname.  By 
default dhclient asks to be assigned a new hostname.

man dhclient.conf

shows you can create an /etc/dhclient.conf with a "request" line that 
excludes host-name, that should stop it getting set.

-Andy




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