🚀 go-pugleaf

Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote:
> 
> Stephen Reynolds (spr@ozemail.your.pyjamas.com.au) wrote:
> : As root I've set the hostname of my machine to Marvin but that doesn't seem to
> : stick, and upon reboot it defaults back to localhost. I don't mind that, but
> : when I connect to my ISP (camtech) the hostname - or a least the prompt -
> : changes to [spr@dialup-ad-13-54 spr] You will probably be able to see a
> : variation of the temporary hostname in the header of this message.
> 
> : Can somebody tell me why that happens or is it normal behavior in Linux?
> 
> That is the default behaviour for RedHat is you don't have an ethernet adapter.
> If you do have an ethernet adapter then use netcfg to set it up.
> 
> Yours Tony.

I used netcfg to set mine to bonj. I don't have an ethernet adapter,
though. netcfg just gives you a message saying because you don't have an
ethernet adapter you won't be able to see network drives etc, which was
kind of obvious to me!!

-Ben