How to change hostname of a CentOS system?

How to change hostname of a CentOS system?

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How to change hostname of a CentOS system?

CentOS is an Enterprise Linux distribution based on the freely available sources from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Each CentOS version is supported for 7 years (by means of security updates). A new CentOS version is released every 2 years and each CentOS version is periodically updated (roughly every 6 months) to support newer hardware. This results in a secure, low-maintenance, reliable, predictable and reproducible Linux environment.

I personally prefer to install CentOS as my linux distribution. Today I needed to change the hostname of my virtual guest machine running CentOS.

There are several ways to do that but I am using the old way. VI is my friend and still working. I am using a remote SSH session to one of my virtual machines but you can perform same steps from the console.

 

• Login with putty.exe
• Goto /etc/sysconfig/
• Type vi network
• Press i on the keyboard and change the HOSTNAME to your preferred servername
• Press ESC on the keybord
• Save the configuration by :wq!
• Log off or reboot

posted on 2012-02-21 18:53  lexus 阅读( ...) 评论( ...) 编辑 收藏

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