Newcomers to Linux, especially those coming from a Windows background, often find files in the /etc directory to be difficult to understand. In this article, I provide a brief explanation of some of ...

According to our /etc/hosts file above, our hostname for this setup would be SAMBADOM. To set this, open up the /etc/hostname file and change it accordingly.

I have a virtual server running under some old version of Linux that is now end of life. So poor Linux distro selection skills back in 2017... I'm now in the process of moving ~ 7 websites that ...

Thus, if you grep on a hostname in the /etc/hosts file, you may find an IP address for that system, but it may not be the one that the local system is using. Why?