Graphical tool that sets hostname

[Chris Kottaridis]

I installed Fedora 19 and the machine gets IP address from DHCP and
comes up with a hostname of:

$ hostname
unknownF46D04B04638

I'd like to set the hostname to match the DNS name that goes with the
Address it's getting assigned.

I believe I could use:

$ hostnamectl --static myhost

will set the hostname to myhost.

However, is there a graphical admin tool that will do it ?

In older releases network manager had an option to set the hostname, but
doesn't seem to now.

Thanks
Chris Kottaridis

[Steven Rosenberg]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Chris Kottaridis wrote:
> I believe I could use:
>
> $ hostnamectl --static myhost
>
> will set the hostname to myhost.
>
> However, is there a graphical admin tool that will do it ?
>
> In older releases network manager had an option to set the hostname, but
> doesn't seem to now.

I don't think there is a GUI tool for this. But here is the Fedora
documentation I use whenever I need to do this:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/System_Administrators_Gui...

--
Steven Rosenberg
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[Lee]

FWIW, try...

1. Edit /etc/conf.d/hostname to be:

HOSTNAME="mycomputer"

2. Edit /etc/hosts to be

127.0.0.1 mycomputer.mydomain.local mycomputer

HTH!
On Apr 22, 2014 2:04 PM, "Chris Kottaridis"  wrote:
> I installed Fedora 19 and the machine gets IP address from DHCP and
> comes up with a hostname of:
>
> $ hostname
> unknownF46D04B04638
>
> I'd like to set the hostname to match the DNS name that goes with the
> Address it's getting assigned.
>
> I believe I could use:
>
> $ hostnamectl --static myhost
>
> will set the hostname to myhost.
>
> However, is there a graphical admin tool that will do it ?
>
> In older releases network manager had an option to set the hostname, but
> doesn't seem to now.
>
> Thanks
> Chris Kottaridis
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[Tom Horsley]

The host name that fedora uses is stashed in the
file /etc/hostname these days.
> However, is there a graphical admin tool that will do it ?

If there is, someone will "improve" it so you can't find it
in the next release anyway, so you might as well stick
to editing /etc/hostname.

Of course the hostname used to be in /etc/network and they
changed that so we couldn't find it as well, so even
sticking to command line tools can be a problem.

A properly configured DHCP and DNS server can either
assign names as well as IP addrs, or find out the name
you want and update the DNS server with that name, but
getting that to work requires effort on the part
of whoever runs the servers, you can't really control
it from the client, though client config work may be
required as well to work with the servers (it all gets
mind bendingly complex :-).

[Tim]

On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 16:03 -0500, Chris Kottaridis wrote:
> However, is there a graphical admin tool that will do it ?

Didn't you get to set it with the installation routine?  Mine did, just
installed Fedora 20 a short while ago, tonight, using the live DVD.  It
suggests you set up the network using the live DVD tools before starting
the installation, and that's what I did.  Graphically, not editing
configuration files.

[Chris Murphy]

In Gnome, if you go to Settings > Details > Overview there is a Device name field which is the same as using

hostnamectl set-hostname blah

I've only ever ended up with a mess whenever I explicitly set --pretty --transient hostnames. Maybe related, Adamw was building/rebuilding a server the whole network and hostname thing gave him fits.
http://www.happyassassin.net/2013/09/22/sysadmin-adventures-local-dns-and-mo...

Chris Murphy