On Wednesday 24 February 2021 06:13:16 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 12:58:33PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I have been working on a lower priority project, replacing some atom > > powered machines with i5 powered Dells. Installing buster but > > something is overriding my efforts to rename the machine after the > > install because I'd like to replace "lathe" with "TLM" for The > > Little Monster. > > > > Nothing I do survives a reboot, so what do I do to actually rename > > the machine and make it stick? Hopefully without losiing the > > networking which I don't have after the last reboot, probably > > because of the current volatility of interface names.
> hostnamectl should do it - and it will be permanent > > hostnamectl set-hostname [whatever_you_want_goes_here] > But sudo that doesn't give it a domainname even if you rename it fqdn style, so I put it back. > All best, Thanks Andy C. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
