On 03/29/2012 03:38 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > James Richard Tyrer wrote: >>>>>> 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. > > You need to set up /etc/dhclient.conf. Do not request a host-name. > OK, that sounds like a reasonable idea, but that is where I started. I have the file from the BLFS page: "DHCP-4.2.3-P2 Client Configuration" installed and need to modify it. I thought that all I needed to do was remove: "host-name" and "domain-name" from the: "request" list. The problem is that this does not fix the issue.
>>>>>> It would be nice if this page of the book addressed this problem. -- James Tyrer Linux (mostly) From Scratch -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
