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["Marlier, Ian" <ian.marlier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Constant Brouerius van Nidek [mailto:constant@xxxxxxxxxxx] ;
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 1:43 PM
> To: opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [opensuse] only a very small nuisance
> 
> On Friday 03 August 2007, Pete Connolly wrote:
> > Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
> > > On my Laptop which runs 10.0 I found that instead of name 
> of my net
> > > (constant.net) the word reached shows up.
> > > Same in my Gkrellm header.
> > > Looked all over the setup but do not seem to find the 
> place to correct
> > > this unimportant fact. Somebody could my point in the 
> just direction?
> >
> > Hi Constant
> >
> > I had something like this a long time ago,  and if my rusty memory
> > serves me correctly it was down to a problem with my 
> networking setup,
> > in particular the DNS settings.  Do you have the option to 'change
> > hostname using DHCP' ticked in your network setup?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> Hi Pete,
> Must be close to the solution.
> No idea where to change the hostname using DHCP. Could not 
> fine anything 
> useful.
> But found out that if I would like to setup a DHCP server the 
> initialization 
> stops with the information:
> ERROR
> <Cannot determine the hostname of .>
> 
> Looking at this information I would say that somewhere in my 
> setup a dot has 
> creeped up. A dot but where?

check /etc/hosts and /etc/HOSTNAME...either of those have anything other
than the proper hostname of the machine?

What does the output of `hostname` show?

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