Re: hostname set to "new-host"

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:23:23 +0000 (UTC)
Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:13:59 -0400, Celejar wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> You mean your terminal displays "user@new-host:~$" while "cat hostname" 
> returns "old-host"? I'm not seeing that behaviour here (wheezy).

Yes.

> Are you getting your network values dynamically or that machine is 
> getting its configuration values from an external source?

I sometimes set up the network via DHCP, and sometimes statically. In
any event, the hostname gets set to 'new-host' before I bring up the
network (I do it manually via 'ifup wlan0').

Thanks,

Celejar
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