By iqbal
Hello Dear Community
I’m not able to change the hostname on my FreeBSD droplet from the one I was to create it.
I added this line hostname=“new.host.name” to my /etc/rc.conf, rebooted many time but my droplet still keeps my original hostname I’ve chosen when creating it.
Is It a DigitalOcean issue ?
Regards
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This question was answered by @matthewa:
The problem appears to be in the
/etc/rc.d/hostnamescript... elif [ -n "`/bin/hostname -s`" ]; then return ...if the hostname is already set, then it aborts, so no overriding. Solution maybe to edit the hostname name from all the
rc.digitalocean.d/*.conf– so that the default action happens as expected, although I am currently unsure as to whether these configuration files will be overridden at a later date by DO automation?
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