Re: [gnome-list] gnome vs. network

["Bobby D. Bryant" <bdbryant mail utexas edu>]

Chuckles wrote:

> Hi,
>
>         If I'm not mistaken this is a 'quirk' of RedHat's since 5.1.  I think
> it's in RH's initscripts.  If your machine name isn't set or is set to
> 'localhost' then the scripts will reset the 'HOSTNAME' to your dialup
> address when it's assigned on login to a ppp account.  A fix is to just
> add a machine name different from 'localhost' to /etc/hosts.  (ie:
> 127.0.0.1       yourmachine      localhost    localhost.localdomain)
>
>         Though I don't know if this is proper syntax for /etc/hosts it works
> for me and several other folks I know.  Now when I log onto my dialup I
> don't have to deal with RH resetting my machine name to my dialup mask.
> Setting a hostname in /etc/HOSTNAME never did work for me.  On login to
> my dialup RH would change the hostname to the dialup mask.  Very
> annoying!

This doesn't seem to work for me.  I hung up, added "bogohost", deleted
/etc/HOSTNAME, rebooted, and saw that /etc/HOSTNAME was set to
localhost.localdomain.  But as soon as I dialed up again, it went back to
dial*.edu.  Perhaps the mechanics have changed between 5.1 and 5.2?

So I suppose I could hack up the init scripts... but that misses the point of my
original whine: if GNOME is supposed to work when you're not on the network, why is
it complaining?  Am I loosing any functionality (other than the obvious)?  If I am,
then GNOME ain't for me, because I spend more time hung up than dialed up.  If I'm
not losing anything, it should be completely transparent to GNOME.

Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas