Details admin Redhat / CentOS 08 April 2017
Depending on your Rendhat 7 installation you may end up with a default hostname
localhost.localdomain
. This hostname will be shown on various services your new server will offer as well a it will be show on your command prompt such us: [root@localhost ~]#To change your hostname simply edit
vi /etc/hostname
file and inlcude name of your host.For example to change hostname to "rhel7" the /etc/hostname
file will contain:
# cat /etc/hostname rhel7To update your command prompt simply re-login and to apply this change system wide execute:
# systemctl restart systemd-hostnamed
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-change-a-hostname-on-redhat-7