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Hide Private Photos on iPhone. All Microsoft's PowerToys for Windows. Take Screenshot by Tapping Back of iPhone. Windows 11 Default Browser. Browse All Windows Articles. Windows 10 Annual Updates. What's the difference between restart and reboot? Show 2 more comments. Below is how: Press Ctrl Alt t on keyboard to open the terminal. Finally, restart your computer to apply the changes. Mohsen Gh. Pierz Pierz 2, 20 20 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges.

Please upvote this answer. This worked great for me. Other answers don't work with the adoption of cloud-init. What is the package name? Just cloud-init? Also, is there any way to change hostname with cloud-init instead of just disabling its override? Yes you can change many settings using cloud-init - see the docs link in my answer - here's a link to setting the hostname: cloudinit.

Usage: sudo. Lucas Lucas 9 9 silver badges 19 19 bronze badges. Just curious. Fr0zenFyr: it takes a valid X11 authentication token xauth list and replaces the old hostname with the new hostname sed. Then awk puts quotes around the first argument to xauth add because xauth 's input and output format are not symmetric. Thanks for the explanation.

I had always rebooted for the changes to take effect. Tombart Tombart 10 10 silver badges 24 24 bronze badges. With Maybe because is a CT inside Proxmox. Or just run the command "hostname" from the command line. Edit hosts file. Jekis Jekis 3 3 silver badges 8 8 bronze badges. George George 5 5 silver badges 13 13 bronze badges. I see in the cloud-config. If you make a change, then manual maintenance takes over, and cloud-init will not modify it. I currently don't have Ubuntu 18 so I cannot test it until the weekend.

There it is. Beside Device name , there is a text-box. Edit text-box and close window. Open terminal. See for yourselves. For older versions, the text-box is not editable. Josip Rodin Josip Rodin 1 1 silver badge 13 13 bronze badges. What new dependency did Ubuntu 18 introduce to pull in cloud-init by default? You may be thinking of some cloud-tailored images, in which case it's should not come as a surprise that they run custom cloud provisioning tools.

OmarQunsul OmarQunsul 47 2 2 bronze badges. I don't think this will survive a restart — Collin Anderson. The sysctl is a command of Linux which modifies thing in kernel.

You can also change the Hostname using sysctl command by below mentioned command:. During the installation of Debian11, you need a Hostname but if due to some reasons you want to change the hostname, there are several ways you can change Hostname after installation. You can follow any of the approaches explained to successfully change Hostname on your system. I am currently an undergraduate student in my 1st year. I am an internee author with Linuxhint and loved learning the art of technical content writing from senior authors.