How to set Permanent or Static hostname for CentOs7 Minimal Server.
How to set Permanent or static hostname for CentOs7 Minimal Server:
This article help you set Permanent or static hostname for CentOS 7 Minimal server.
Prerequisites:
CentOs 7 Minimal Server installed – May it be Physical or VPS or a VM.
hostname abc.abc.comĀ
Entering hostname abc.abc.com
will change the hostname temporarily. To find it, type
hostnamectl
Sample Output:
Sample Output of hostnamectl will show ,
Static hostname: localhost.localdomain & Transient hostname: abc.abc.com . when the server is restarted the hostname will change itself to old name.
To overcome this scenario, we have to set a permanent or static host name. To set, use the following command.
hostnamectl set-hostname abc.abc.com
In this case, the output of command hostnamectl will be shown as,
Static hostname: abc.abc.com (FQDN)
Icon name: computer-vm
Chassis: vm
Machine ID: 31ff204cc76641e99460750cef4d0e0e
Boot ID: 9992b7511b4942c29ea48a0aada0294c
Virtualization: vmware
Operating System: CentOS Linux 7 (Core)
CPE OS Name: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7
Kernel: Linux 3.10.0-514.el7.x86_64
Architecture: x86-64
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