Hostname resets after rebooting

[michael102]

Hello Gurus,

I have an unmanaged VPS running Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS (precise), the default host name it came with was very long "vps-1148921-19454.manage.myhosting.com" so I wanted to change it to something shorter like "ubuntu-1". I read that I could simply edit /etc/hostname & /etc/hosts, however my changes always get reset after every reboot.

My Changes:

$echo "ubuntu-1" > /etc/hostname
$hostname -F /etc/hostname
$hostname
    ubuntu-1

$cat /etc/hosts
    127.0.0.1       localhost
    #my edit is below this line
    127.0.1.1       ubuntu-1
    ::1             localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
    fe00::0         ip6-localnet
    ff00::0         ip6-mcastprefix
    ff02::1         ip6-allnodes
    ff02::2         ip6-allrouters
    # Auto-generated hostname. Please do not remove this comment.
    192.30.165.158 vps-1148921-19454.manage.myhosting.com vps-1148921-19454 

The changes seems to take effect, however after Rebooting (sudo reboot) my changes are lost, it resets to the following:

$hostname
    vps-1148921-19454.manage.myhosting.com

$cat /etc/hostname
    vps-1148921-19454.manage.myhosting.com 

/etc/hosts keeps the same contents

Any help would be appreciated.

[Habitual]

"Maybe", just maybe change:

192.30.165.158 vps-1148921-19454.manage.myhosting.com vps-1148921-19454

to

192.30.165.158 ubuntu-1

have you contacted myhosting.com support about this issue?

[jeanjd63]

Hello

Have-you try the commands :
sudo -i
hostname ubuntu-1
exit

[michael102]

Thanks guy, the issue is resolved. I had to change it through my VPS console page, apparently those settings would overwrite anything I did on command line.

My hosts entry now looks like:
192.30.165.158 ubuntu-1.com ubuntu-1

[Habitual]

VPSs, you have to love 'em.
Glad it worked out.