Re: Cannot change hostname permanently

[Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:23:22 +0100
Chris Lale <chrislale@untrammelled.co.uk> wrote:

[...]

> 
> 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.
> 
> 

The output you quote above is the result of init invoking

    /etc/init.d/hostname.sh start

What happens when you do this manually? Are there any weird permissions
on the file /etc/hostname?

-- 

Liam