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LittleSpy
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 Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 7:49 pm Post subject: hostname won;t change from localhost |
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| I can't seem to get my hostname to change from localhost. When I frist start my computer it says matt-laptop as it should. As soon as I log into gnome my hostname is changed to localhost. I have HOSTNAME="matt-laptop" set in /etc/conf.d/hostname and I don't even have localhost in /etc/hosts just 127.0.0.1 matt-laptop. Has anyone else had this problem or know of what might be happening? I guess it has to be some program that is starting when X/gnome starts. |
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booleandomain
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| Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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| is the hostname script in your boot runlevel? you can check with eselect rc list boot | grep hostname. also, what version of openrc do you have? |
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tgR10
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| Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 11:11 pm Post subject: |
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what about those 2 commands
| Code: | rc-update show |grep hostname
rc-status -a|grep hostname |
imo rc-update > eselect in this case :P
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cach0rr0
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possible dhcp is overwriting this?
be a strange change to make for dhcp, but well...possible |
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wdsci
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Just an update in case this is useful for anyone in the future: I was having the same problem. It turned out that NetworkManager was setting the hostname to "localhost" as indicated by these lines in the system log:
| Code: | Aug 26 11:49:03 laptop07 NetworkManager: <info> Retrieved the following IP4 configuration from the DHCP daemon:
Aug 26 11:49:03 laptop07 NetworkManager: <info> address 192.168.4.107
Aug 26 11:49:03 laptop07 NetworkManager: <info> netmask 255.255.255.0
Aug 26 11:49:03 laptop07 NetworkManager: <info> broadcast 192.168.4.255
Aug 26 11:49:03 laptop07 NetworkManager: <info> gateway 192.168.4.1
Aug 26 11:49:03 laptop07 NetworkManager: <info> nameserver 127.0.0.1
Aug 26 11:49:03 laptop07 NetworkManager: <info> nameserver 208.67.222.222
Aug 26 11:49:03 laptop07 NetworkManager: <info> nameserver 208.67.220.220
Aug 26 11:49:03 laptop07 NetworkManager: <info> hostname 'localhost'
Aug 26 11:49:03 laptop07 dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not found under /com/redhat/dhcp/eth0 for sub-path eth0.dbus.get.interface_mtu
Aug 26 11:49:03 laptop07 NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit) scheduled...
Aug 26 11:49:03 laptop07 NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP Configure Get) complete.
Aug 26 11:49:03 laptop07 NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth0) Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit) started...
Aug 26 11:49:03 laptop07 NetworkManager: <info> Old device 'eth0' activating, won't change.
Aug 26 11:49:04 laptop07 NetworkManager: <info> Setting hostname to 'localhost' |
After some trial and error, I found out that I could fix the problem by commenting out two lines in the file /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf:
| Code: | #send host-name "localhost";
#supersede host-name "localhost"; |
Now my hostname stays as what I set it to in /etc/conf.d/net.
I got a few error messages from BIND in the system log, like this
| Code: | | Aug 26 14:22:59 laptop07 named[5847]: network unreachable resolving 'c3.nstld.com/A/IN': 2001:503:ba3e::2:30#53 |
but they don't seem to indicate a problem with the networking. |
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