Hi again,
Got the solution, you need to set your hostname in the
/etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf to,
send host-name "<your_hostname>";
supersede host-name "<your_hostname>";
Enjoy,
--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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