Re: Changing host name

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> On 04/06/2010 05:52 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>   
>>> On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 23:47 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I believe Patrick may have missed the part about your using
>>>> "system-control-network"...if that is of any value.
>>>>         
>>> Not really, given that he didn't say he was using s-c-n but something
>>> called the "network control applet" in Gnome. Since I don't use Gnome,
>>> I've no idea what that means, if anything. My reply simply pointed out
>>> that localhost is widely assumed to be defined, and that having it
>>> undefined is likely to lead to breakage. Said breakage may or may not
>>> affect the network connectivity directly, but you can be sure that
>>> something somewhere will not work as expected, i.e. it's a bad idea.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> I don't use Gnome either.  And, AFAIK, there really is no such thing as
>> a "Network Control Applet".  I did fire up Gnome and found there is a
>> "Network Control" item in the Gnome menus so I assumed that is what he
>> was using.
>>
>> Bottom line, I was nearly 100% sure he was using a GUI to do the bidding
>> and "hoped" that any GUI wouldn't be so foolish as to muck with the
>> "localhost" settings in the hosts file.
>>
>> He also showed, via ipconfig, that his adapter no longer had an IP
>> address associated with it.  That, to me, demonstrates a "dead" network.
>>   However, I was unable to reproduce the issue.
>>     
> I suspect he's relying on NetworkManager.  In that case, if you go in
> and do a "hostname whatever" behind NM's back, it's going to break.
> It will invalidate the DHCP lease (bringing the network down) and
> confuse NM's database (such as it is).  NM is rather, uhm, touchy
> (cranky) about things being done without its knowledge.
>   
Why do you suggest that?   My test system relies on DHCP, it also is
configured to utilize NM.  I changed the hostname using the "hostname"
command.  No ill effects.  Besides, DHCP makes use of the MAC address
and not the hostname.
> The best bet is to edit /etc/sysconfig/network, set the desired hostname
> in there, reboot the system and log back in.  NM should pick up a
> DHCP lease and such with the desired hostname taken care of.
>   
I've never found a need to reboot on changing hostnames.  The most
drastic action I've taken was to "service network restart".
> Note that I don't necessarily like NM.  It is useful, but it is
> rather incompletely documented and much of what various people know
> about it is rather anecdotal and may or may not be accurate, depending
> on which version of NM they're running.  God help us!
>
> NM people: I'm still willing to write the docs for this beast.  All it
> takes is you to tell me to and give me some contact info so I can
> clarify things when needed.  I'll overlook the deafening silence I was
> greeted with in my past offers.
>   
Can't say that I've experienced any of the NM woes others have gone
through.  But, maybe that is becuase I don't have wireless.  Looking
forward to testing that sometime soon with F13 as it seems it now will
support my wireless adapter.

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