Re: NetworkManager-list Digest, Vol 49, Issue 2

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 17:24 -0400, Dustin Howett wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Alexander Sack <asac jwsdot com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 06:28:02PM -0400, Dustin Howett wrote:
> >> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > It's a matter of persistent storage... when you reboot you'd probably
> >> > like to have the hostname come back as what you set it before, and that
> >> > means you have to store the persistent hostname somewhere on the
> >> > filesystem...
> >> >
> >>
> >> This is completely true. I'd like to have my hostname remain what I
> >> set it; unfortunately, no matter what I set MY hostname to, NM insists
> >> on making me localhost.localdomain, no matter what.
> >> What might be better is some way to change it from nm or the related
> >> applet; without other system administration tools.
> >
> > The latest trunk builds shouldn't do that anymore. What build/package
> > are you using?
> >
> 
> Latest trunk build straight from SVN as of not even 5 minutes ago,
> unfortunately.

Did you reboot or 'killall -TERM nm-system-settings'?  One of those two
is necessary for the fix to take effect.

Dan