On Sunday 22 August 2004 17:37, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > Gentle folks, > > Recently I discovered that a system of mine, running Mdk 9.1 is likely > to change its own hostname - somehow after it gets IP data by dhcp > server. In fact, with using netconf, I gave it a name like "xybox" for > example, but after getting its IP from dhcp server, the name changes to > something like "dhcpip1" or "dhcpip2" or like. What is going on and how > to prevent it to change its 'static' hostname (computername)? Otherwise, > the box runs ok. > > Regards, > > Misko
When you defined your interface there was a checkbox to get the hostname through dhcp. To get rid of it edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (or whatever your interface is called) and remove the line :- NEEDHOSTNAME derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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