On Wednesday 01 September 2004 16:27, Mike Wills wrote: > Three other people have stated the correct location. > > /etc/sysconfig/network > > I have done this and it works, both in FC1 and FC2. I know, I got that, its just that there seems to be a spook in this config somewhere, I don't know where though, probably someone has added a hostname command to a startup script somewhere which causes the hostname to be set on boot, but not permanently, as in, in one of the correct files. So I am not spending hours hunting for it I will just add another statement to rc.local -- Chadley Wilson Production Line Supervisor Pinnacle Micro Manufacturers of Proline Computers ==================================== Exercise freedom, Use LINUX =====================================