gnome vs vpnclient
Scot L. Harris
webid at cfl.rr.com
Thu Aug 3 13:19:28 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 18:28 -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
> Scot,
> I believe the hosts file simply has...
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
>
> since it is configured with dhcp. I will have to check the nsswitch.conf
> tomorrow but I assume it will be okay if it is...
>
> hosts: files dns
>
> However when I open a terminal, the prompt always shows the hostname as a
> dhcp domainname (changing according to what I am given by dhcp). Are you
> suggesting that I don't want to see that but want the hostname to be localhost
> if I am using dhcp in order to prevent vpn from confusing gnome?
> Jack
>
Yes. I think that may fix the problem you are having. You can assign a
name to your system in the network configuration files that will not
change. I also put the name in the /etc/hosts file as well. In your
case I would add that name to the 127.0.0.1 line you have in /etc/hosts.
Keep the localhost names there as well.
Look in /etc/sysconfig/network. You can specify a
HOSTNAME=nameofyoursystem.abc.lan.
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