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[Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>]

This is right on, except he wants the opposite behavior. Edit
/etc/init.d/networking.sh and look for the line in start():

             loadproc dhcpcd $DEVICE -H

and remove the -H. This should prevent your hostname from being changed
via dhcp. IIRC, someone else brought this up and I think this may be
changed in the init.d spell, or at least be specified as an option.

-casey



On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Andrew wrote:

> this may help or it may not, when i was on a dhcp network, i had to add
> -DH to the dhcpcd command line, that automatically took care of setting my
> hostname everytime. so in reality dont really need to run hostname at all.
> `
> On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 02:00:47PM -0500, Jeremy Kolb wrote:
> > thanks. but how do i change the behavior? i think it's kind of unfair 
> > that it just ignores /etc/hostname, then what's the point of having a 
> > hostname file at all (if you are using dhcp this is, not static).
> > 
> > Jeremy
> > 
> > Eric Sandall wrote:
> > 
> > >>i've inserted echo statements into the /etc/init.d/hostname.sh file, and
> > >>i have determined that hostname is run before the network scripts.  i
> > >>think that this is the source of my problems with the hostname being
> > >>reset everytime i boot. is there a way to change the order here? and why
> > >>am i the only one with this problem?
> > >>
> > >>Jeremy
> > >>
> > >>PS I use dhcp
> > >>   
> > >>
> > >
> > >Mine also changes names when I'm on my Univ.'s network, but at home 
> > >(where
> > >_I_ control the DHCP server ;)) it stays the same.  It used always be the
> > >same, no matter where I was, but now the script uses whatever DHCP
> > >returns, rather than what I told it to use in /etc/hostname
> > >
> > >-One of Four
> > >a.k.a. sandalle
> > >
> > > 
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > 
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