On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 07:46:40PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 07:27:11PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > On Friday, January 21, 2022 6:45:52 PM EST Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 06:42:38PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > > > So how do I officially set the hostname so its reboot proof? > > > > > > hostnamectl set hostname [foobar] > > The standard Debian way is to put the desired hostname in /etc/hostname. > > If I'm reading hostnamectl(1) correctly, the command you wanted should > have a hyphen in it: hostnamectl set-hostname NEWNAME
Clarification: hostnamectl is from the systemd suite. For those using another init system, put things directly in /etc/hostname. Reading the source [1], `set-hostname' seems to be obsolete. The magic word seems to be simply `hostname', these days, at least. As far as I can see, after making sure the user hasn't made some error, it passes the buck to some D-Bus service [2], which then does something. Or not: I stopped my chase there. For pedestrians (no D-Bus around here), writing to /etc/hostname is still the way to go. Probably it'll work along with a systemd too. Cheers [1] https://sources.debian.org/src/systemd/250.3-1/src/hostname/hostnamectl.c/?hl=655#L655 [2] https://sources.debian.org/src/systemd/250.3-1/src/hostname/hostnamectl.c/?hl=655#L496 -- t
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