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How to change hostname of Fedora 20

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I changed the value in /etc/hostname but it did not see changes in my hostname. What could be the correct way to achieve this.

posted Mar 20, 2014 by Mandeep Sehgal

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Use hostnamectl and check this link to  figure out how to use hostnamectl:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/System_Administrators_Guide/s1_Using_Hostnamectl.html

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The proper command is hostnamectl, hope this helps.

answer Mar 20, 2014 by Sumit Pokharna
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Use This Command
hostnamectl set-hostname

answer Mar 20, 2014 by Atif
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