I recently installed Jessie on a new computer. Now that I have the system up and running I decided that I would like to have a different hostname than the rather unimaginative 'localhost-01' I picked during install. I used the "mate-network-admin" utility to change it, and checked /etc/hostname and saw that the change was reflected there also.
Then I rebooted. The display manager wouldn't load, leaving me with an almost blank screen (there was a blinking cursor in the upper left corner). I switched to another virtual terminal, edited /etc/hostname back and was able to boot normally. Although when I just opened "mate-network-admin" again it still had the new name in there. Apparently mate-network-manager changes /etc/hostname, but changing /etc/hostname doesn't reverse it completely??? (I'm thinking I must have done something wrong, because that doesn't make sense). Anyway, the main question is, how do i change the hostname for my system? I did do some searching online, and so far I found that I have to change: /etc/hostname /etc/hosts then run the command sysctl kernel hostname=NEW_HOSTNAME. There were also directions on how to change config files for some specific packages. Am I missing anything? Thanks, Jon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CANcvmg3+gxrEZovCPGNf1=pf05j6ze+onpytktnx-8bojbb...@mail.gmail.com
