hostname

3 posts / 0 new
Topic locked
Last post
#1 Fri, 03/06/2009 - 01:08
wesleyh

hostname

Hello,

I had my server reinstalled and then reinstalled virtualmin.. HOwever I noticed that my hostname was incorrect during installation..

it said server.webhost.com (my host) and it should be server.mydomain.com

I have now fixed it after virtualmin was installed via the hostname command, also changed it in /etc/hosts and added it to /etc/hostname (this was empty)

Is this sufficient or is there anything else I should do? Did virtualmin use the old value for something?

thanks

Fri, 03/06/2009 - 01:10
wesleyh

Actually logging in to virtualmin it still says the old value in the system info and title.

Fri, 03/06/2009 - 05:12 (Reply to #2)
andreychek

I believe the contents of /etc/hostname are only applied during a reboot.

To manually set the hostname, you might run on the command line:

hostname YOUR_DESIRED_HOSTNAME

You might also need to restart Virtualmin if it's caching the old name (/etc/init.d/webmin restart).

As for other things to change -- I'd look in /etc/postfix/main.cf and make sure your old name isn't listed there anywhere.
-Eric

Topic locked