hi all,
im trying to change the hostname on mt netbook from the completely random one generated by yast to something like daniel-laptop
but i keep doing it in yast and it keep not coming up…>:(
so how can i change it?
In this sorts of situations, when you think you do something right, but it went wrong, it is nice to show all the steps you took. Then someone can find out where it went wrong. As you failed to do so, I will try to explain how I do it in 10.3. May be it helps. May be another will show you how it is done in 11.0. May be you will show us what you did, so we can investigate further.
YaST > Network Services > DNS and Hostname
Then the hostname and the domainname can be filled in in the fields at the top. Complete.
Open a terminal window and issue the following command:
su -c ‘hostname daniel-laptop’
Enter root-password when asked for. This will set the hostname.
To verify: close the terminal window and open a new one. The prompt now should be like this:
daniel@daniel-laptop:~>
If you want more info, issue the following command:
man hostname