I am having trouble with the hostname on my cooker box and can't figure out what is going on. I am updated through 20030227's Cooker.
I am on a network with a dhcp server and have set a hostname in drakconnect. When I reboot, the machine is assigned an ip address by the dhcp server (192.168.0.6) and the hostname is set to dhcppc5. I know that the dhcp server is providing the hostname, but why doesn't the OS use the hostname I entered in drakconnect? The contents of my /etc/sysconfig/networking file: NETWORKING=yes GATEWAY=192.168.0.1 If I add a hostname and domain name to /etc/sysconfig/networking, it still boots up using dhcppc5 as the hostname. What is going on here? Shouldn't the hostname I provide in drakconnect override anything the DHCP server provides. I see this has been dicussed before, but I don't see resolution. Why should I have to manually edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and /etc/sysconfig/networking to set a hostname on this machine. Lot's of people on home networks with routers that don't allow hostname/mac address assignment editing are going to have a problem with this when they can't name their box. -- Greg
