Strange host name behavior in F7T2

[Gerry Tool]

On 3/3/07, Andrew Parker <andrewparker at bigfoot.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/2/07, Gerry Tool <gerrytool at gmail.com> wrote:
> > When in F7T2, the terminal prompt lists my computer as localhost, even
> > though I gave it a name during install.
> > [root at localhost ~]#
> >
> > When in F7T1, it lists my computer as F7T1, the name I gave it when
> > installing from DVD.
> > [root at f7t1] ~]#
> >
> > The /etc/hosts files have the same form:
> > [root at localhost ~]# diff /etc/hosts /mnt/f7t1/etc/hosts
> > 3c3
> > < 127.0.0.1     f7t2.thetoolshed.us     f7t2    localhost.localdomain
> > localhost
> > ---
> > > 127.0.0.1     f7t1.thetoolshed.us     f7t1    localhost.localdomain
> > localhost
> >
> > This naming persists, even though I set hostname with the hostname
> command.
> >
> > The next time I boot to f7t2, the hostname is back to "localhost"
> > [root at localhost ~]# hostname
> > localhost
> > [root at localhost ~]# hostname f7t2.thetoolshed.us
> > [root at localhost ~]# hostname
> >  f7t2.thetoolshed.us
> >
> > In f7t1:
> > [root at f7t1 ~]# hostname
> > f7t1.thetoolshed.us
> >
> > Here are the /etc/sysconfig/network file contents:
> > [root at localhost ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network
> > NETWORKING=yes
> > yesHOSTNAME=f7t2.thetoolshed.us
> > [root at localhost ~]# cat /mnt/f7t1/etc/sysconfig/network
> > HOSTNAME=f7t1.thetoolshed.us
> > NETWORKING=yes
> > yesHOSTNAME=f7t1.thetoolshed.us
> >
> > There was a bug in F7t1 anaconda (bugzilla #227250) that didn't honor
> the
> > host name set by the user; is that still the problem?  Or, is there
> > something I'm forgetting to do?   I added this comment to the bug
> report.
> >
> > In this case, removing the yes from yesHOSTNAME and restarting the
> network
> > does not solve the naming problem.
> > [root at localhost ~]# service network restart
> > Shutting down interface eth0:
> > [  OK  ]
> > Shutting down loopback interface:
> > [  OK  ]
> > Bringing up loopback interface:
> > [  OK  ]
> > Bringing up interface eth0:
> > Determining IP information for eth0... done.
> >
> > [  OK  ]
> > [root at localhost ~]#
> >
>
> During install, I had my hostname supplied by DHCP checked (it was
> right), but after installation it says localhost too.


One of the things I did above took care of the problem.  A reboot later
resulted in the hostname in the prompt line being f7t2 as I wanted.  The
service restart evidently did not take care of recognizing the new name.

Gerry
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