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["Michael S. Dunsaavage" <mikesd1981@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

 On 10/1/2010 3:04 PM, James Pifer wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 14:52 -0400, Michael S. Dunsaavage wrote:
> > On 10/1/2010 2:26 PM, James Pifer wrote:
> > > Any ideas how I can reset my machine name like it was before?
> > Could you temporarily change the host name with the host command and
> > recover the document?
> >
> > # host machinename
> >
> > Then change the hosts file and reboot. however, I would look over the
> > entire network configuration to make sure nothing else got borked.
> I tried that, and although the prompt looks correct int he xterm window,
> the title bar of the xterm window still shows username@localhost.
>
> When I start oocalc from within this xterm window, it still gives me the
> error.
>
> I found my document in openoffice's backup:
> ~/.ooo3/user/backup
>
> So that's not an issue. Now I'm just trying to understand what is going
> on. Whenever I modify the hosts file, it gets changed on reboot, but not
> just changed back to an original file. If I add:
> 127.0.0.2       machine-name.mydomain.com machine-name
>
> It gets change to:
> 127.0.0.2       localhost.localdomain localhost
>
> I'll try adding it multiple times and see what happens. It's just very
> strange. Nothing else seems out of whack. I got my normal reserved ip
> address from dhcp, and the other settings seem fine.
>
> Thanks,
> James
I would look around in the network configuration. You said you use 
network manager.  That may be writing something everytime it starts 
network services. It's been a while since I used that, but there is an 
option to use traditional ifup if I recall. Also there is an option to 
not write to hosts file.
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