[root@bogon log]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network<br>NETWORKING=yes<br>HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain<br>[root@bogon log]# <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:50 AM, Craig White <<a href="mailto:craigwhite@azapple.com">craigwhite@azapple.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 05:44 +0800, Fennix wrote:<br>
> I noticed today in my terminal window I now have a host name of<br>
> "bogon". I had never set a hostname for my Fedora8 home system. I<br>
> can see from my logwatch and cron system mails that the delivery to<br>
> this host name started March 25th but none of my mails shows anything<br>
> that seems relevant to what has set this hostname. Oddly on the 26th<br>
> the system mails were addresses again to localhost.localdomain but<br>
> again reverted on the 27th to being addresses to bogon. I have<br>
> checked the man pages on the hostname command to locate where the name<br>
> is defined. Have checked the<br>
> files /etc/host, /etc/hosts.conf, /etc/hostname (does not<br>
> exist), /etc/nsswitch.conf, ... but this name does not show in any of<br>
> the files I have looked at so far. Any ideas where to look further?<br>
> I am now wondering whether my system has been compromised somehow...<br>
> Googleing the word bogon shows me the meaning of of bogon which does<br>
> not seem helpful in this case.<br>
><br>
> Checking /var/log/messages-20080330 shows the use of this hostname<br>
> with a reboot I had done on the 24th. Still cannot see where or how<br>
> this was set.<br>
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what is output of?<br>
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cat /etc/sysconfig/network<br>
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Craig<br>
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