Is it possible it's grabbing the hostname from DNS? What does the DNS entry for its IP address say? -hp3 On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 10:18, Johnny Fulcrum wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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