On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 13:12, Rolf Pedersen wrote:
> Bill Mullen wrote:
> > On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Rolf Pedersen wrote:
> >
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> >>I still have internet connectivity but the prompt and echo $HOSTNAME are
> >>still the MAC address.
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> > Because you haven't restarted networking yet ("service network restart").
> >
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> No, as I said in the part that you cut out:
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> > service network restart
> > to restart your network services without rebooting.
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> Went to runlevel 3 to do this so as to restart kde (which is needed to
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> see a change in the konsole prompt when I use hostname to change the host)
Not really needed. just start a new konsole session. I'm beginning to
suspect that tmdns or worse yet zcip are "helping" you in some way.
personally I remove them both and then put them in the skip list for
urpmi (one MDK box and I run my own DNS, besides IMHO Novel networking
bytes.)
James
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