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niyumard
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Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2020 10:59 am Post subject: [Solved] Hostname changes to dhcppc2

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Hi, I've set my hostname as per handbook's guidance:

Code:

cat /etc/hostname
computerpc

but running hostname returns: dhcppc2

When I first boot my computer, my host name is shown correctly but after a while (for example by logging in or entering a wrong password), it just changes to dhcppc2
What should I do?

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Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2020 11:23 am Post subject:

Welcome to gentoo forum. You are sure that /etc/hostname is correct location? In handbook we talk about /etc/conf.d/hostaname. _________________ Questions are guaranteed in life; Answers aren't.

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Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2020 1:33 pm Post subject:

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fedeliallalinea wrote:

Welcome to gentoo forum.

You are sure that /etc/hostname is correct location?
In handbook we talk about /etc/conf.d/hostaname.

Oh right,
I'd set that place actually, and today I saw a strange line added to it:

Code:

# Set to the hostname of this machine
hostname="computerpc"
is<80>kbge<80>kb<80>kbcomputerpc^[:wq^M

I removed the other line and will update this message if this changes anything.

Update: removing the line didn't change anything, hostname still returns dhcppc2

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Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2020 2:29 pm Post subject:

I'd guess that your dhcp server is setting it.

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Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2020 2:55 pm Post subject:

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Tony0945 wrote:

I'd guess that your dhcp server is setting it.

Yep, this just reminded me that I'm using connman and ArchWiki has warned about it changing the host name.
Fixed it by the way suggested in ArchWiki's article:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ConnMan#Avoid_changing_the_hostname

Thank you!

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