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Re: Windows hostname change fails in recent versions of Cygwin (since 1.7.28)
- From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:39:33 -0400
- Subject: Re: Windows hostname change fails in recent versions of Cygwin (since 1.7.28)
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On 04/14/2014 06:28 PM, Wedge Jarrad wrote:
Hello all,
The following command used to allow me to change the hostname of a Windows
machine:
wmic computersystem where name=\"$COMPUTERNAME\" call rename name=newname
With new installs of Cygwin this seems to have stopped working...
OK maybe I'm just missing something but what part of the above uses Cygwin?
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Larry
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