Re: Who is altering my hostname?

[Florian Lindner <mailinglists@xgm.de>]

Am Mittwoch, 26. September 2007 schrieb Kevin Sulonen:
> Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2007-09-26 00:04:26 +0200, Florian Lindner wrote:
> >> What could this make happen? In /etc/init.d/ there is nothing like a
> >> dhcp client. I have also removed some packages with dhcp in their names.
> >>
> >> Any idea what makes these two files changing and how to avoid it?
> >
> > It seems to be a dhcp client (but I don't know why). Have you checked
> > that pump isn't installed?
> >
> > Or perhaps resolvconf does this if it is installed (on one of my
> > machines, it got installed automatically and modified some files,
> > which was annoying as I use netenv).
> >
> > Also, you should look at the mtime of the modified files and look
> > at your log files if something special occurred at this time (or
> > a few seconds earlier).
>
> Hi:
>
> Please forgive me if this has already been suggested, but I encountered
> a similar problem running Lenny. Try getting rid of networkmanager.

What package do you mean? 
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=networkmanager&searchon=names&suite=stable&section=all 
says that there is no package named networkmanager.

Regards,

Florian

> I 
> actually wound up purging this utility. There are probably more elegant
> ways to make it behave, but I felt foolish enough after I discovered
> what was causing the problem that I found the exercise distinctly
> satisfying.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Kevin