Re: hostname bogosity

[Kent West]

Michael D. Harnois wrote:

I'm perplexed by a network configuration problem on my system. hostname
returns the correct name; yet on startup, KDE says "Can't get own host
name. Your system is severely misconfigured," and my DHCP server doesn't
recognize the hostname for the system either. Where could the problem
be?
 

My first guess would be that you're missing the following line in 
/etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1       harnoiscomputer localhost

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Kent


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