On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 12:44, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > > Is there a way to ask the system where it did get the hostname? > > ---- > > cat /etc/sysconfig/network > > That gives me > NETWORKING=yes > HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain > which to me is not informative. > > > you can edit there if you wish - probably have to '/sbin/service network > > restart' to get it to take though. > > > > My guess is that you named this machine when you did the original > > install. > > Assuming I did so (it was orange and it tasted like orange juice), > where would that information be stored? There are alternate versions of an assortment of files stored under /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/. I'm not sure what circumstances cause these files to be created or for their contents to override the ones you expect to be used, but you might find this name in /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/network. -- Les Mikesell les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
