Thanks, will do!

--Ali Al-Shabibi

Contrary to popular belief Unix is userfriendly,
it is just picky as to whom it is friendly with...

Timo Hoenig wrote:
> Hi Ali,
> 
> On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 09:36 +0100, Ali Al-Shabibi wrote:
> 
>>      When I connect to my network with NetworkManager, it resets my hostname 
>> to a value received by DHCP. Is there a way not let NetworkManager do this?
> 
> Actually there is a way to avoid setting the hostname.  However, it
> depends on your distribution.
> 
> There are are couple of backends (src/backends) which provide
> distribution specific bits.  Among others, each backend has to implement
> the function nm_system_set_hostname().  This function is able to decide
> on whether to set the hostname or not (e.g. the decision can depend on
> some configuration file option).
> 
> Please get in touch with the NetworkManager maintainers of your
> distribution to solve this issue.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>    Timo
> 
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