-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----Hash: SHA1 Clark Dunson wrote:> > The hostname is usually set by the ‘hostname’ program, but not in the> Gnome case. We cannot set the hostname and recover several of our> systems due to your design choice, which by every standard is not Unix-like.> > I'm trying to wrap my head around this one. I have a laptop that wasissued to me by IBM that goes with me to customer sites all the time. At these customer sites, most of them run DHCP which sets the hostnameon my system. Very neatly I might add. Depending on whose network I'm onmy machine gets called all sorts of names. (oh.. ok.. bad pun... ) I've never had issues with Gnome in this case... - ---- Peter L. Berghold Unix ProfessionalPeter@xxxxxxxxxxxx AIM: redcowdawg YIM: blue_cowdawg"Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it."-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux)Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHtfgwUM9/01RIhaARAk0SAJ4+vwZQAMayweKgkvqu1Wl6aquuxACfbp4KyFRAci341e6RGJX31g46dx0==UoSh-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----_______________________________________________gnome-list mailing listgnome-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
