On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:31:20 -0500, Harry Penner <hpenner at cbca.com> wrote:

> Is it possible it's grabbing the hostname from DNS?  What does the DNS
> entry for its IP address say?
>

[root at userimage kernel]# host 10.1.103.74
74.103.1.10.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer userimage.retek.int.
74.103.1.10.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer msppc1210.retek.int.


both...


> -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.
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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