> -----Original Message----- > From: Constant Brouerius van Nidek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 1:43 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [opensuse] only a very small nuisance > > On Friday 03 August 2007, Pete Connolly wrote: > > Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote: > > > On my Laptop which runs 10.0 I found that instead of name > of my net > > > (constant.net) the word reached shows up. > > > Same in my Gkrellm header. > > > Looked all over the setup but do not seem to find the > place to correct > > > this unimportant fact. Somebody could my point in the > just direction? > > > > Hi Constant > > > > I had something like this a long time ago, and if my rusty memory > > serves me correctly it was down to a problem with my > networking setup, > > in particular the DNS settings. Do you have the option to 'change > > hostname using DHCP' ticked in your network setup? > > > > Cheers > > > Hi Pete, > Must be close to the solution. > No idea where to change the hostname using DHCP. Could not > fine anything > useful. > But found out that if I would like to setup a DHCP server the > initialization > stops with the information: > ERROR > <Cannot determine the hostname of .> > > Looking at this information I would say that somewhere in my > setup a dot has > creeped up. A dot but where?
check /etc/hosts and /etc/HOSTNAME...either of those have anything other than the proper hostname of the machine? What does the output of `hostname` show? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
