Re: hostname set to "new-host"
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:41:17 +0100
Raf Czlonka <rjc@linuxstuff.pl> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 08:30:08PM BST, Celejar wrote:
> > At the bash prompt (user@new-host). For a while I thought there was
> > something messed up in my bash profile, until I finally realised that
> > typing 'hostname' was yielding the wrong result ...
>
> OK, since it's not the 127.0.1.1 in /etc/hosts and it happens even before
> you're on the network; do you have any avahi/autoIP related packages
> installed which might be doing so?
> As suggested before, NetworkManager might be worth checking as well.
NM is not installed. Various libavahi* packages are installed, but I
believe that at least some have been there for a while, pulled in by
some higher level packages (e.g., cups).
I don't even know what autoIP is ;)
Celejar
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