Re: Should /etc/hostname contain the whole FQDN?

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Jonathan Wilson wrote:

>
> Can anyone who /knows/ tell me what the proper officially correct ways of
> setting the hostname and the FQDN are, please?
>
> Thanks,
>
> JW
>
>
> --

in /etc/hostname :
myhostname
in /etc/hosts:
10.0.0.120 myhostname.mydomain.com myhostname

set those then run /etc/init.d/hostname.sh as root, this gets ran at boot up, but you can run it and reset the hostname this way.

now when I run hostname -f I get my FQDN, you'll have to restart any services that rely on this as well after changing it.

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