Re: hostname set to "new-host"

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> writes:

>> > Just rebooted my system, and the hostname is now set to
>> > 'new-host' (/etc/hostname still contains the correct hostname). Anybody
>> > seeing this, or understand why?
>> 
>> What is in /etc/hosts
>
> Nothing that seems particularly relevant - is there anything I should
> look for?

I suspected that term had somehow gotten into /etc/hosts, and some
processes look there for host name.  Sounds like that is not the case.