On 10/4/19 2:04 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > Righto. systemd strikes again. Here's the relevant man page > bits: > > hostnamectl may be used to query and change the system hostname > and related settings. > > This tool distinguishes three different hostnames: the > high-level "pretty" hostname which might include all kinds of > special characters (e.g. "Lennart's Laptop"), the static > hostname which is used to initialize the kernel hostname at boot > (e.g. "lennarts-laptop"), and the transient hostname which is a > fallback value received from network configuration. If a static > hostname is set, and is valid (something other than localhost), > then the transient hostname is not used. > > ---- > > > In this case, systemd has helpfully decided that a name it is > picking up from DHCP (most likely) is your system's temporary > name. I'm not sure why anyone thought this was a good idea, but > that's what it is.
There is no DHCP. Couldn't be that. I think. > You can probably tell your dhcp client not to ask for the > temporary/transient hostname, or tell systemd not to do this > thing, but I don't know precisely how. systemd is a mixed blessing. I'll see what I can find about this 'feature' on the web and/or the man page. Thanks for pointing me toward systemd. And thanks to the powers that be at Debian for including a significantly buggy piece of software in the stable release... Where's Ian? -- Glenn English
