Re: Who is altering my hostname?

[Florian Lindner <mailinglists@xgm.de>]

Am Mittwoch, 26. September 2007 schrieb Kevin Sulonen:
> Florian Lindner wrote:
> > 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
>
> Hi Florian:
>
> My apologies. I made a typo. Here's the culprit:
> network-manager_0.6.5-1_i386.deb . There are affiliated Gnome and KDE
> packages as well. From the description:

This package is not installed.

Any more ideas?

Thanks,

Florian