how to restart the hostname service?

February 18, 2015 3.3k

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elearn

I am on my debian7.8 ,change my hostname from test into testtest according to
https://github.com/DigitalOcean-User-Projects/Articles-and-Tutorials/blob/master/set_hostname_fqdn_on_ubuntu_centos.md#setting-the-fully-qualified-domain-name-fqdn

root@test:/home/demo# service hostname restart
hostname: unrecognized service

how can i do now ?

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1 Answer

asb MOD February 20, 2015

On Debian, the service is named hostname.sh It can be run using:

sudo service hostname.sh start

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