Re: hostname won't stick


Subject: Re: hostname won't stick
From: Jim Cole (greyleaf@yggdrasill.net)
Date: Sat Apr 22 2000 - 15:15:01 MDT


Did you make the changes in /etc/sysconfig/network? If I recall, the
settings in this file override those in some of the more traditional
files.

Jim

Dan Kortschak's bits of Sat, 22 Apr 2000 translated to:

>When I start gnome, I'm told that the address of localhost.localdomain
>can't be found since I have changed the hostname of my machine and so
>deleted the lookup for localhost, to replace it with one for my chsen
>name. At boot something changes hostanme back to localhost.localdomain.
>What is doing this and how can I stop it?
>
>thanks
>



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