Brief: This tutorial will show you to how to find current hostname of the system. Also, how can you change the hostname of your Ubuntu, Debian and LinuxMint systems?
Change Hostname using Hostnamectl
The latest operating systems (Eg: Ubuntu 18.04, 16.04, Debian 9/8) running with systemd uses hostnamectl command to manage computer hostname.
You can change the hostname of Linux system using the following command. For example, you need to set computer hostname to webhost1.
hostnamectl set-hostname webhost1
This will update /etc/hostname file on your system and load in the current environment. But you still need hostname binding with localhost IP.
Edit /etc/hosts file to bind new hostname with localhost IP address.
127.0.1.1 webhost1
Now, Execute the below command to find current hostname set for your system.
hostnamectl Static hostname: webhost1 Icon name: computer-vm Chassis: vm Machine ID: 844c6ba3394d4646bd27ba204be67f27 Boot ID: 5030cf55956a4c32ad3d6b7f391a3c77 Virtualization: xen Operating System: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1049-aws Architecture: x86-64
Change Hostname Manually
You also use older way to change the hostname of the system manually by editing configuration files directly. To change hostname first edit /etc/hostname file and write your hostname there.
/etc/hostname:
webhost1
After editing the file, you can also set the hostname for the current session to avoid system reboot.
hostname webhost1
After that edit /etc/hosts file to bind new hostname with localhost IP address.
127.0.1.1 webhost1