Re: hostname set to "new-host"
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:14:36 -0400
Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:27:42 -0400
> > Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> 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?
> >>
> >> What's the output of "sysctl kernel.hostname"?
> >
> > kernel.hostname = new-host
>
> So as far as the kern's concerned, "new-host" is the hostname.
>
>
> >> Could now be getting your hostname from your dhcp server via dhclient or via NM?
> >
> > Perhaps, although as I noted in a different message, I thought I saw
> > this before the network was even set up. I'll have to check more
> > carefully.
> >
> > In any event, I've used this system for years on various sorts of
> > networks (mostly controlled by consumer grade SOHO router / firewall /
> > wireless AP / DHCP servers running both the manufacturer's standard
> > firmware as well as OpenWrt), with both static addressing as well as
> > DHCP, and I've never seen this before today.
>
> You could have hit a combination of dhcp settings on the dhcp server
> and dhclient settings on the laptop that forces your laptop to get a
> hostname from the dhcp server. Anyway, I think that you said in
> another post that this is happening before the network comes up; so
> this isn't it...
>
> I vaguely remember (but could be misremembering!) someone reporting
> something similar on Fedora where GNOME/GDM was setting the hostname.
> You could check whether this is the issue by appending "text" to the
> grub "linux" line.
I don't use GNOME/GDM (XFCE started via startx).
> BTW, where are you seeing the new hostname?
At the bash prompt (user@new-host). For a while I thought there was
something messed up in my bash profile, until I finally realized that
typing 'hostname' was yielding the wrong result ...
Celejar
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