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Re: Windows hostname change fails in recent versions of Cygwin (since 1.7.28)


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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