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Unable to set hostname for use within network
I am having a lot of trouble setting up a hostname for my home server for use within my home network. My home server is running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and all packages are up to date. Management of this ...
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“Unable to resolve hostname” - how to cleanly change hostname without rebooting
At work, I work on a small website using Ubuntu servers hosted on Amazon EC2 instances. We have two webservers, and at any given time one of them is 'live' and one is 'testing', but when we've got our ...
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What are the ramifications of setting the hostname?
I have several Amazon EC2 servers and I'm using Chef to manage the configuration. I'd like to set the hostname so that the default bash prompt is more helpful.
Right now after launching a new server ...
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I changed my hostname, why is my bash PS1 prompt unchanged
I changed my hostname by editing /etc/hostname and can see the new hostname using the hostname and hostname -F commands.
But the shell prompt is still showing the old hostname.
This is Ubuntu 11.0.4 ...
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How to request a hostname from a DHCP server on Ubuntu?
I have an Ubuntu 11.04 server virtual machine. I would like to request a specific hostname from the DHCP server at the office. Since I don't run it often, the IP changes nearly every time that I boot ...
