In Gnome, if you go to Settings > Details > Overview there is a Device name
field which is the same as using
hostnamectl set-hostname blah
I've only ever ended up with a mess whenever I explicitly set --pretty
--transient hostnames. Maybe related, Adamw was building/rebuilding a server
the wh
On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 16:03 -0500, Chris Kottaridis wrote:
> However, is there a graphical admin tool that will do it ?
Didn't you get to set it with the installation routine? Mine did, just
installed Fedora 20 a short while ago, tonight, using the live DVD. It
suggests you set up the network u
The host name that fedora uses is stashed in the
file /etc/hostname these days.
> However, is there a graphical admin tool that will do it ?
If there is, someone will "improve" it so you can't find it
in the next release anyway, so you might as well stick
to editing /etc/hostname.
Of course the
FWIW, try...
1. Edit /etc/conf.d/hostname to be:
HOSTNAME="mycomputer"
2. Edit /etc/hosts to be
127.0.0.1 mycomputer.mydomain.local mycomputer
HTH!
On Apr 22, 2014 2:04 PM, "Chris Kottaridis" wrote:
> I installed Fedora 19 and the machine gets IP address from DHCP and
> comes up with a hostn
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Chris Kottaridis wrote:
> I believe I could use:
>
> $ hostnamectl --static myhost
>
> will set the hostname to myhost.
>
> However, is there a graphical admin tool that will do it ?
>
> In older releases network manager had an option to set the hostname, but
> doe
I installed Fedora 19 and the machine gets IP address from DHCP and
comes up with a hostname of:
$ hostname
unknownF46D04B04638
I'd like to set the hostname to match the DNS name that goes with the
Address it's getting assigned.
I believe I could use:
$ hostnamectl --static myhost
will set the
