Commands to Configure hostname on CentOS 7 and RHEL 7 | Linux Today

Commands to Configure hostname on CentOS 7 and RHEL 7

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Pradeep Kumar
Mar 3, 2016

Hostname is defined as label or name of a computer and network device. In this article we discuss how to set and modify hostname on CentOS 7 & RHEL 7. There are three different commands through which we can query, set and modify hostname.

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Pradeep Kumar

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