NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain
[root@bogon log]#
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:50 AM, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 05:44 +0800, Fennix wrote:
> I noticed today in my terminal window I now have a host name of
> "bogon". I had never set a hostname for my Fedora8 home system. I
> can see from my logwatch and cron system mails that the delivery to
> this host name started March 25th but none of my mails shows anything
> that seems relevant to what has set this hostname. Oddly on the 26th
> the system mails were addresses again to localhost.localdomain but
> again reverted on the 27th to being addresses to bogon. I have
> checked the man pages on the hostname command to locate where the name
> is defined. Have checked the
> files /etc/host, /etc/hosts.conf, /etc/hostname (does not
> exist), /etc/nsswitch.conf, ... but this name does not show in any of
> the files I have looked at so far. Any ideas where to look further?
> I am now wondering whether my system has been compromised somehow...
> Googleing the word bogon shows me the meaning of of bogon which does
> not seem helpful in this case.
>
> Checking /var/log/messages-20080330 shows the use of this hostname
> with a reboot I had done on the 24th. Still cannot see where or how
> this was set.
----
what is output of?
cat /etc/sysconfig/network
Craig
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