On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:33:05AM -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote: > Small things can be very annoying department. > > I find that when I start : "dhclient" with the: "network" init.d script > that the host-name of my computer is changed to: "dhcppc<n>". I have > looked through the documentation and can not seem to find out how to > prevent this. > > It would be nice if this page of the book addressed this problem.
I haven't seen this problem. I use dhclient with the following in /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig.eth0: ONBOOT=yes IFACE=eth0 SERVICE="dhclient" DHCP_START="-1 eth0" DHCP_STOP="-r" and my hostname is what I set in /etc/sysconfig/network. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
