absolute emergency! Why does my hostname display howtoforge ? It's very very urgent

Probably you configured something in your server and entered the word howtoforge there.

Check the files:

/etc/hosts
/etc/hostname

You must have entered the word " howtoforge " in one of these files. Correct the file by setting the desired hostname and saving it.

 

What's in /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname? It might alos be that you accidentally set the hostname to the word howtoforge dynamically using the hostname command without changing a config file. This would mean that the hostname command now shows the word hostname when you execute it until next system reboot, but it's not permanently stored in any config file.

 

Example: When you run:

Code:

hostname howtoforge

on your system, then the command:

Code:

hostname

will return the word howtoforge the next time you run it. So to fix that, you simply run:

Code:

hostname yourhostname

 

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