Hi. I've tried to set the hostname on my machine and I'm having no luck. I su - to root did a hostname <coolhostnamehere> and rebooted and it came back with userimage.xxx.xxx as the hostname I tried linuxconf (yuck) and that didn't work.... tried the mandrake network and internet settings control panel - that didn't let me set the hostname, so I hit the wizzard button there and it ran through the network set up and at one point it asked for the Zerocinf hostname -I gave the hostname I wanted, and it did some stuff and applied the changes, then at the settings page, the hostname was changed, but not to what I specified it went from "userimage" to "msppc1210" (the name of the machine before I installed linux NO IDEA where it dug this up... BIOS maybe?), then when I quit the mandrake config tool and checked the command line (using hostname) and it was back to "userimage".... grrr fired the mandrake tool back up and it said "userimage" too!!! /etc/network/ /etc/sysconfig/network has teh proper HOSTNAME and NETWORKING=yes (that's all this file contains. 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? OR how do you set hostname without using GUI tools (that seem to bork the system up..) _______________________________________________ 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