Connecting the dots... » naming convention http://blog.rajatpandit.com Thoughts on Web Development, Infrastructure and Application Scalability Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:21:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Setting hostname on Leopard permanently http://blog.rajatpandit.com/2009/05/04/setting-hostname-on-leopard-permanently/ http://blog.rajatpandit.com/2009/05/04/setting-hostname-on-leopard-permanently/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 07:24:25 +0000 rp http://blog.rajatpandit.com/?p=261 One of the annoying things about Leopard is that it keeps changing the hosting to whatever the DNS server dishes out and in my case its something like 12-32-145-23.config, not the most pretty/useful naming convention.

Also means that it looks really ugly on the terminal. So here are the commands to reset it permanently so that it doesn’t change again after a reboot.

$ sudo hostname foobox.local
$ sudo scutil --set HostName foobox.local
$ sudo scutil --set LocalHostName foobox
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