Re: A bridge too far ...

["Peter L. Berghold" <peter berghold net>]

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Clark Dunson wrote:
> 
> The hostname is usually set by the ‘hostname’ program, but not in the
> Gnome case.  We cannot set the hostname and recover several of our
> systems due to your design choice, which by every standard is not Unix-like.
> 
> 

I'm trying to wrap my head around this one.  I have a laptop that was
issued to me by IBM that goes with me to customer sites all the time.

At these customer sites, most of them run DHCP which sets the hostname
on my system. Very neatly I might add. Depending on whose network I'm on
my machine gets called all sorts of names. (oh.. ok.. bad pun... )

I've never had issues with Gnome in this case...

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Peter L. Berghold                   Unix Professional
Peter Berghold Net             AIM: redcowdawg YIM: blue_cowdawg
"Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it."
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