source: BOOK/network/common/hostname.xml@ 8000b26

clfs-3.0.0-systemd clfs-3.0.0-sysvinit systemd sysvinit
Last change on this file since 8000b26 was 40b9a5f, checked in by William Harrington <kb0iic@…>, 11 years ago

Remove HOSTNAME= variable in the command placing the hostname into /etc/hostname.

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-network-hostname">
9 <?dbhtml filename="hostname.html"?>
10
11 <title>Configuring the system hostname</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-network-hostname">
14 <primary sortas="d-hostname">hostname</primary>
15 <secondary>configuring</secondary></indexterm>
16
17 <para>Systemd reads <filename>/etc/hostname</filename> to determine which
18 hostname should be set.</para>
19
20 <para>Create the <filename>/etc/hostname</filename> file and enter a hostname
21 by running:</para>
22
23 <screen><userinput>echo "<replaceable>[clfs]</replaceable>" &gt; /etc/hostname</userinput></screen>
24
25 <para><replaceable>[clfs]</replaceable> needs to be replaced with the
26 name given to the computer. Do not enter the Fully Qualified
27 Domain Name (FQDN) here. That information will be put in the
28 <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file in the next section.</para>
29
30</sect1>
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