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[SOLVED] Changing Hostname

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – I have three 'cloned' systems (F17 Server with Gnome) running in a VirtualBox environment. After cloning each, I changed the hostname file and the network IP address info so they could be run at the same time. In general, this seems to work. But not all is correct. For example, if I launch a terminal session, my prompt is in the form of Quote: username@newnode ~$ but the title of the terminal window reads as Quote: username@oldnode:~ So the system still has a record of the old node name laying (HowTos)

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