hostnamectl - Control the system hostname

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Last updated at 2025-05-29Posted at 2025-05-15

sudo hostnamectl set-hostname new-hostname

hostnamectl

 Static hostname: ...
       Icon name: computer-server
         Chassis: server
      Machine ID: 002f78fbb8ff4ec48632c32b9675f4ea
         Boot ID: 469c16a33ae24f92bb7e1bc3c9b95eca
Operating System: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
          Kernel: Linux 6.8.0-59-generic
    Architecture: x86-64
 Hardware Vendor: Supermicro
  Hardware Model: Super Server
Firmware Version: 3.4
   Firmware Date: Thu 2025-02-13
    Firmware Age: 2month 4w 2d

Static hostname: ...
       Icon name: computer-vm
         Chassis: vm
      Machine ID: 9f25fa7ef5d05a68de9ce9f576ff50e1
         Boot ID: dbe2aed52a3b4b1ba00a61c8815311ca
  Virtualization: kvm
Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS
          Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-113-generic
    Architecture: x86-64
 Hardware Vendor: Red H

Static hostname: ...
       Icon name: computer-vm
         Chassis: vm
      Machine ID: be6673b1511e408b949d2ee087024edd
         Boot ID: 95c93778a221446fb8e2850d0256aff0
  Virtualization: kvm
Operating System: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
          Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-130-generic
    Architecture: x86-64
 Hardware Vendor: Tencent Cloud
  Hardware Model: CVM

Static hostname: ...
       Icon name: computer-vm
         Chassis: vm
      Machine ID: c9442a5c7f1d4a4aaf3b7443e5b1b955
         Boot ID: 91dc7b0696974cf599acfd8f4b1eeba0
  Virtualization: kvm
Operating System: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
          Kernel: Linux 6.8.0-57-generic
    Architecture: x86-64
 Hardware Vendor: Alibaba Cloud
  Hardware Model: Alibaba Cloud ECS
Firmware Version: 0.0.0
   Firmware Date: Fri 2015-02-06
    Firmware Age: 10y 3month 1w 4d

Static hostname: ...
       Icon name: computer-server
         Chassis: server
      Machine ID: 9cf73573d23b42efb035b28006b9e4da
         Boot ID: 31bb18e2d0554d52b610f517744a5307
Operating System: Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
          Kernel: Linux 6.8.0-50-generic
    Architecture: x86-64
 Hardware Vendor: Supermicro
  Hardware Model: AS -2124BT-HTR
Firmware Version: 2.5
   Firmware Date: Fri 2022-09-23
    Firmware Age: 2y 8month 4d

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