Thanks Dave , is there anyway of stopping the dchp daemon from over
writing my hostname ?

TIA
 Richard

On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 18:44, Dave Sherman wrote:
> richard bown wrote:
> > Hi 
> > up to a few days ago, if I opened a xterm my hostname was as I set it.
> > ie gb7tf
> > now and I cant find the file to change, its 
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > all the files containing the hostname seem OK
> 
> Normally, the hostname is in /etc/sysconfig/network. However, it can be 
> overridden by an entry in /etc/sysconfig/networking/ifcfg-*, or 
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*. The dhcp client daemon can 
> overwrite these files, if it receives a hostname from the dhcp server.
-- 
richard bown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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