Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3491 mails)

[Terry Milnes <neofax@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Benjamin wrote:

> Odd, did you try Johannes Liedtke YaST2 procedure? If you run this at root 
> does it change your host name?
>
> hostname --file /etc/HOSTNAME
>
> This sounds like something out of the Twilight Zone.  I used Knoppix a couple 
> of times and nothing like this happened, not even to that evil Windows 
> partition.
>
>
> On Tuesday 01 July 2003 06:37 pm, Terry Milnes wrote:
>  
>
> > Here is what happened:
> > Power went out while downloading a file to /tmp. Remembered that I have
> > SuSE setup to delete /tmp on boot.  Decided to use KNOPPIX as a rescue
> > CD and move file from /tmp to /home/terry. DID NOT INSTALL KNOPPIX TO
> > HDD. Upon reboot my prompt has changed to user@KNOPPIX> and when I check
> > my hostname it says KNOPPIX.  I have changed /etc/HOSTNAME back to
> > IOS.local to no avail.  Is there somewhere else that KNOPPIX might have
> > changed my config?
> >
> > BTW I have been using SuSE since 6.2 days. I know my way around linux
> > and SuSE in particular. I just have never seen a CD only linux change
> > files on the HDD.
> >
> > NeoFax
> > Terry Milnes
> >    
My HOSTNAME is setup via my Motorola SBG1000 router that uses DHCP. It 
says IOS Host Local Domain.  Is there anywhere else that can be causing 
this?  Thanks so far!

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