Re: changing my Hostname after moving servers

[Bear Weiter <bear-lists@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You can change it permanently by editing your hostconfig file in /etc.

There's a line in that file that might say:

HOSTNAME=-AUTOMATIC-

Change -AUTOMATIC- to the hostname that you want the machine to have. When
it's set to automatic, I *THINK* it's pulling the name from a reverse
lookup, so you might also want to change the reverse lookup on that IP
address to match the host name of the machine.

AFAIK, the hostconfig file is protected - you can't edit it automatically.
There's tools you can access via terminal to edit the file, but since I do
it so rarely I forget how. Instead, what I would do is copy this file to
your desktop through Terminal, edit it with your favorite text editor, save
it, and then copy the file back with Terminal.

--Bear

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