On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:27:42 -0400 > Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Celejar <cele...@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. BTW, where are you seeing the new hostname? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=Sy_1zg+q9YG-Pf4ERFvdVf+3DQHRSkczsOco=Z=zqs...@mail.gmail.com
