<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Aaron Konstam <<a href="mailto:akonstam@sbcglobal.net">akonstam@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">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. > > fennix </div></div>Normally the name is set in the /etc/sysconfig/network file. -- ======================================================================= "Your butt is mine." -- Michael Jackson, Bad ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: <a href="mailto:akonstam@sbcglobal.net">akonstam@sbcglobal.net</a> -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list</a> </blockquote></div> Thank you for your suggestion. There the name is defined as localhost.localdomain (as I expected). There was a message that this comes from avahi and perhaps it is better to stop this program. I will be trying this. Fennix