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From: Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 00:00

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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.

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Date: 1999/01/18
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