Kent West wrote:
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No, I mean it seems odd that he changes "/etc/hostname", and after reboot it has changed back to the original.Or at least, that's what I understood him to say in his original post.
Yes, that's it. My packages are up-to-date, my wireless/ADSL modem/router box (Philips SA6500) is switched off, Samba and NFS are purged from the system and any references to the original hostname ("earth") in /etc/hosts are commented out.
The original hostname is "earth". I want to change it to "desktop". This is what happens:
# hostname earth # hostname desktop # hostname desktop # shutdown -r now During reboot I see (blink and you'll miss it)INIT: version 2.86 booting
Setting hostname to 'earth' ... done The above two consecutive lines do not appear in dmesg output. # hostname earth Chris.