Re: [Cooker] Why can't I set a hostname on a dhcp network

2003-03-04 Thread Bruno Prior
John Allen wrote: It is dhclient. You will need to do a man dhclient.conf and create a suitable dhclient.conf file. Again I will say that this is ridiculous, can we not just go back to dhcpcd as the default DHCP client. I'd like to second this. I run linux at work and home and have a laptop I use

Re: [Cooker] Why can't I set a hostname on a dhcp network

2003-03-03 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 03 March 2003 03:19 am, John Allen wrote: > > Is it tmdns/zeroconf or dhclient? > > It is dhclient. You will need to do a man dhclient.conf > and create a suitable dhclient.conf file. > Why should a distro that is supposed to be easy for newbies require one to man dhclient.conf and manua

Re: [Cooker] Why can't I set a hostname on a dhcp network

2003-03-03 Thread John Allen
On Monday 03 March 2003 03:45, Greg Meyer wrote: > I have been going over this and over this on my machine and no matter what > I change, I cannot set a hostname on a machine when dhcp is being used. It > will only use the name supplied by dhcp server, which is not what I want. > > Is it tmdns/zer

Re: [Cooker] Why can't I set a hostname on a dhcp network

2003-03-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 02 March 2003 11:19 pm, Lonnie Borntreger wrote: > > If all those are yes, then you'll need to check the logs and see what > errors if any are coming back to you. > > Of course the problem could be the server. Have you been able to set > the hostname before? > That is an affirmative on

Re: [Cooker] Why can't I set a hostname on a dhcp network

2003-03-02 Thread Lonnie Borntreger
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 21:58, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Sunday 02 March 2003 10:53 pm, Lonnie Borntreger wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 21:45, Greg Meyer wrote: > > > I have been going over this and over this on my machine and no matter > > > what I change, I cannot set a hostname on a machine when

Re: [Cooker] Why can't I set a hostname on a dhcp network

2003-03-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 02 March 2003 10:53 pm, Lonnie Borntreger wrote: > On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 21:45, Greg Meyer wrote: > > I have been going over this and over this on my machine and no matter > > what I change, I cannot set a hostname on a machine when dhcp is being > > used. It will only use the name suppl

Re: [Cooker] Why can't I set a hostname on a dhcp network

2003-03-02 Thread Lonnie Borntreger
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 21:45, Greg Meyer wrote: > I have been going over this and over this on my machine and no matter what I > change, I cannot set a hostname on a machine when dhcp is being used. It > will only use the name supplied by dhcp server, which is not what I want. Try setting both D

[Cooker] Why can't I set a hostname on a dhcp network

2003-03-02 Thread Greg Meyer
I have been going over this and over this on my machine and no matter what I change, I cannot set a hostname on a machine when dhcp is being used. It will only use the name supplied by dhcp server, which is not what I want. Is it tmdns/zeroconf or dhclient? Is it desired behavior to not allow