Anthony Campbell wrote:
[snip]I've found that you have to change /etc/hosts to match /etc/hostname, otherwise various bad things happen. The same applies if you use the hostname command.
Thanks. That probably explains Gnome behaving strangely.It doesn't affect the main issue though: the hostname command does not modify the /etc/hostname file. Perhaps it is not supposed to? The manpage says that the hostname command sets the hostname:
When called with one argument or with the --file option, the commands set the host name or the NIS/YP domain name. It also says that the hostname is set at boot using the file /etc/hostname: The host name is usually set once at system startup in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 or /etc/init.d/boot (normally by reading the con‐ tents of a file which contains the host name, e.g. /etc/hostname).I cannot find anything which says that the hostname command itself modifies /etc/hostname.
-- Chris.