Re: Different output of hostname & uname -n

From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: Tue Jan 13 2004 - 04:54:07 EST

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They're reporting (slightly) different things, so there's not actually
anything wrong, as such.
You can use the hostname and uname commands to change these values as
well. (I think if you use uname -S it changes the hostname as well.)

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>Ruby Domalanta wrote:
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> Hi Gurus,
> Can anyone tell me how what seems to be wrong why the output of uname -n
> and hostname is different as you can see below? And how to fix this?
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