Change hostname – CentOS 7

November 18, 2015
CentOS 7

Changing the hostname on CentOS 7 is pretty straight forward, issue the following at shell and replace HOSTNAME with the hostname you want to set.

hostnamectl set-hostname HOSTNAME

To verify that the new hostname is set issue the following:

hostnamectl

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