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Jan 042010

How to change hostname in Ubuntu?

Answer:

To see the current hostname setting, see

# cat /etc/hostname 

www.example.com

To change it, edit this file

sudo vi /etc/hostname

Save it and reboot your system and perform the step above to check again.