Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Sam Halliday: > > i am on a DHCP-served network and the server will always give out a > > hostname, but debian completely ignores that hostname; preferring > > instead to use the hostname "debian" which it set up during the > > initial install. > Something you could try (it's a bit brute force, but might work): > > I'm assuming you're using the ISC dhcp client version 3 > (dhcp3-client). > > Edit /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-script and modify the part that sets up the > hostname to write the hostname into /etc/hostname. That might help. > > I've run into the same bug; it's annoying, but I haven't had time to > figure out exactly what is wrong.
i have fixed it now thanks (see thread); you might want to look at my solution. also... i don't have an /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-script script, you must have installed debian a loong time ago when it still had to use wrappers for dhclient2 and dhclient3... now its just /etc/dhclient-script, and i really DO NOT want to edit debian scripts; i would do it in a local script iff i really needed to. cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/fhsst Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel
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