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Steve,

On a RH system, the hostname can be edited in /etc/sysconfig/network. Although I
couldn't really understand what you meant by the rest, but from what I
understand, unless you have a static IP and a registration with Internic, the
entry will be what you have just described.

Regit

Stephen Reynolds 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?
>
> Steve
>
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