How to change hostname in linux

by Petronald Green · May 17, 2013

STEP 1

Redhat / CentOS / Fedora

vi /etc/sysconfig/network

Debian / Ubuntu

vi /etc/hostname

Slackware / Suse / OpenSuse

vi /etc/HOSTNAME

vi /etc/hosts

echo “servername” > /proc/sys/kernel/hostname