On 03/24/2012 09:08 AM, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:33:05AM -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>> Small things can be very annoying department.
>>
>> I find that when I start : "dhclient" with the: "network" init.d script
>> that the host-name of my computer is changed to: "dhcppc<n>". I have
>> looked through the documentation and can not seem to find out how to
>> prevent this.
>>
>> It would be nice if this page of the book addressed this problem.
>
> I haven't seen this problem. I use dhclient with the following in
> /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.eth0:
>
> ONBOOT=yes
> IFACE=eth0
> SERVICE="dhclient"
> DHCP_START="-1 eth0"
> DHCP_STOP="-r"
>
> and my hostname is what I set in /etc/sysconfig/network.
>
Yes, I have:
HOSTNAME=`cat /etc/hostname`
in /etc/sysconfig/network. But, dhclient isn't using that.
Is it possible that something like:
hostname $HOSTNAME
is being executed somewhere on your system?
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James Tyrer
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