Monday, December 22, 2008

Changing hostname under OpenSUSE

One of the quirkiest feature of OpenSUSE is that, there seem to be no way to change or add hostname during the installation. For instance, I ended up with the hostname linux1-woj.

To change the hostname edit the /etc/HOSTNAME (yes, it's upper-caps) file and modify the hostname there. No reboot necessary, but GNOME or your UI might need so.

Source of the tip : http://www.jprl.com/Blog/archive/development/2008/Dec-21.html

3 comments:

Pickle Pumper said...

Thank you! I forgot about the whole case sensitive thing and in ubuntu it's lowercase.

Pickle Pumper said...

Thank you! I forgot about the whole case sensitive thing and in ubuntu it's lowercase.

msian_tux_lover said...

Haven't been using Ubuntu for a while now; I will take your word for it.

Cheers...