On Thu, 2022-01-20 at 19:45 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote: > OK, so this is weird. I just kickstarted a F35 VM. When it booted > up, its hostname was host156.tc.camerontech.com, as I expected it to > be. > > The /etc/hostname file is blank - it just has a single empty line. > > After I rebooted that VM, its hostname is set to fedora It wouldn't be quite so bad if it set its hostname to the one it discovered (even though you'd rather it keep on discovering it), but changing a hostname is intolerable. Have you tried making the hostname file immutable? -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.53.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 14 13:59:45 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure