On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 06:45:19 -0500, Dave Sherman <dsherman at real-time.com> wrote: > Johnny Fulcrum wrote: > [snip] >> /etc/network/ >> >> /etc/sysconfig/network has teh proper HOSTNAME and NETWORKING=yes >> (that's all this file contains. > > This is normal. This is also where your hostname is set, as you saw. > >> so I started going though some files and I see this: > >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: >> >> DEVICE=eth0 >> >> BOOTPROTO=dhcp >> >> ONBOOT=yes >> >> NEEDHOSTNAME=yes >> >> The NEEDHOSTNAME seems fishy to me... >> >> can I comment out that line and restart netork? > > Just change the yes to a no. You can also set a different hostname here > if you want (some people use a different hostname for each NIC, or > perhaps for other purposes), with the HOSTNAME line like the one you saw > in /etc/sysconfig/network. > no love yet... Changed yes to NO and put a HOSTNAME line in here. Rebooted and came back with the msppc1210 hostname I then saw that /etc/sysconfig/networking had a ifcfg-lo file and that /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo was a link back to /etc/sysconfig/networking/ifcfg-lo I then moved /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 to /etc/sysconfig/networking/ifcfg-eth0 and made a link link ifcfg-lo has I rebooted and then the hostname was userimage. Crap. I'm now searching the whole system for files containing msppc1210 or userimage >> OR >> >> how do you set hostname without using GUI tools (that seem to bork the >> system up..) > > It's already set in /etc/sysconfig/network, as you saw above. > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list