On Friday 28 February 2003 03:51, Greg Meyer wrote: > 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. > This is because of the default behavoiur of dhclient (the now default dhcp client). You need to create an overly complex dhclient.conf
man dhclient.conf Really dhclient.conf looks like something that you need to be an administrator to configure, and while that is OK for most of the loonies on this list, IT IS NOT OK for normal people. -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] MandrakeClub Silver Member.
