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

["Dustin Howett" <alaricx gmail com>]

Done so, networkmanager reconnected, and my hostname got reset to
localhost.localdomain.

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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- DH