On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 18:28 -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: > Scot, > I believe the hosts file simply has... > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > > since it is configured with dhcp. I will have to check the nsswitch.conf > tomorrow but I assume it will be okay if it is... > > hosts: files dns > > However when I open a terminal, the prompt always shows the hostname as a > dhcp domainname (changing according to what I am given by dhcp). Are you > suggesting that I don't want to see that but want the hostname to be localhost > if I am using dhcp in order to prevent vpn from confusing gnome? > Jack > Yes. I think that may fix the problem you are having. You can assign a name to your system in the network configuration files that will not change. I also put the name in the /etc/hosts file as well. In your case I would add that name to the 127.0.0.1 line you have in /etc/hosts. Keep the localhost names there as well. Look in /etc/sysconfig/network. You can specify a HOSTNAME=nameofyoursystem.abc.lan.
