DHCP configuration question

[Philip A. Prindeville]

Rick Stevens wrote:
> Philip A. Prindeville wrote:
>> Philip A. Prindeville wrote:
>>> Ok, dumb question, but given that my
>>> /var/lib/dhclient/dhclient-eth0.lease info shows that I'm clearly
>>> getting a hostname and domain name, why does "hostname" return
>>> localhost.localdomain (and "domainname" returns "(none)")?
>>>
>>> What do I need to enable to make this work?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> -Philip
>>>
>>>   
>>
>> Asked and answered:
>>
>> chkconfig NetworkManager off
>
> Huh?  All that does is disable NetworkManager.  It won't affect the
> hostname unless the dhclient script changes it for you or you have a
> hostname in /etc/sysconfig/network and run the old network startup code
> ("chkconfig network on").

The old network code is on by default.

-Philip