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[Adam Clark <adamsgl AT dhbit.ca>]

Somehow this "-H" flag crept into the networking.sh file recently.  I've
submitting a bug regarding it, as I doubt anyone here wants this flag by
default.


On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 16:57:24 -0500 (CDT)
Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu> wrote:

> 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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