Setting the host name on Debian Squeeze

[vpenso]

Asking Vagrant to set the hostname of a virtual machine with an configuration like

config.vm.host_name = 'foo.bar.com'

in the Vagrantfile results in the follwoing error message

The following SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status.
Vagrant assumes that this means the command failed!

sudo service hostname start

The output of the command prior to failing is outputted below:

hostname: unrecognized service

on Debian Squeeze.

[mitchellh]

Setting hostname on Debian (not Ubuntu) should now work [closed by 2cfa79a]