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From: Lorenzo Prince <lorenzo@princenet.sytes.net>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Red Hat and my hostname
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 00:30:27 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0306020023420.6666@princenet.sytes.net> (raw)

Hi.  I recently installed RH9 on my laptop and love it!  Now I want to
install it on my tower which acts as a server for FTP, Mail, NFS to my
laptop and www.  However, the one thing that holds up progress now is the
fact that I need to be able to use a consistent hostname even though my
computer gets its IP from a DHCP server.  This was fine with Slack, as the
hostname could still be set with netconfig.  However, RH only asks for a
hostname if the IP is static, and if not, it picks a seemingly random
hostname out of the air that is a big bunch of numbers and mess.  What can
I do to fix this?  Is there a program that will configure this for me, or
if not what script(s) do I need to edit to change this behaviour?

Thanks,
Lorenzo
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Surely, Linus is talking about the kind of idiocy that others aspire to :-).
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