Comments on: How to change Hostname in openSUSE and SUSE Linux

By: Mohan

Mohan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:50:27 +0000

Nice tip. Thanks ..

By: Gimp Video Tutorials

Gimp Video Tutorials — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:16:57 +0000

Nice gimp tips. thanks..

By: Sujan

Sujan — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:10:33 +0000

2. Click Hostname/DNS tab and untick “Write hostname to /etc/hosts” or alternatively, enter the appropriate hostname in the box provided as shown in the screenshot below:

1. this section is greyed out for me. How do I disable this (untick)?
2. tried step 1 hostnames IPa ddess.. there are so many (127.0.0.1, 127.0.0.2, etc) which one is my guest OS host?

thanks

By: Harpreet

Harpreet — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:40:30 +0000

Lucky is right

By: lucky

lucky — Sat, 23 May 2009 10:18:30 +0000

You should edit /etc/HOSTNAME istead of /etc/hosts

By: mahtiaivo

mahtiaivo — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:14:53 +0000

ok, thanks, that did the trick
can you also tell me, how i see which config file that is (in case i dont want to fire up yast

By: admin

admin — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:04:22 +0000

I think you use DHCP, if so the last suggestion about the hostname change from the Network Manager should help! This is the option that resets the hostname no matter what you enter in the host file

By: mahtiaivo

mahtiaivo — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:57:39 +0000

on opensuse 11.0 this will not help
the hostname stays the old one, no matter if you edit it to the new one
where the heck did you put that info?