On Tuesday 08 Jul 2003 1:17 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > after having had some problems with mdk 9.1: > > dhclient, dhcpcd, dhcpxd all cause the hostname that I set to be overridden > (no matter what I set in mcc - I have tried it all) the solution is to > disable dhcp on startup, so then the hostname sticks, but you have no > internet connection. And then manually start it with 'dhcpcd -r' this uses > the _old_ dhcp standard, and obviously my ISP uses this one too. > > It might be a good idea to put this into /etc/rc.local, so it starts up > everytime you log in.
Removing the line NEEDHOSTNAME in your /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file should stop DHCP overwriting your hostname derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net
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