Re: How to get Fedora 35 to use DNS name as hostname?

[Tim]

On Thu, 2022-01-20 at 19:45 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> OK, so this is weird. I just kickstarted a F35 VM. When it booted
> up, its hostname was host156.tc.camerontech.com, as I expected it to
> be.
>
> The /etc/hostname file is blank - it just has a single empty line.
>
> After I rebooted that VM, its hostname is set to fedora

It wouldn't be quite so bad if it set its hostname to the one it
discovered (even though you'd rather it keep on discovering it), but
changing a hostname is intolerable.

Have you tried making the hostname file immutable?