HOSTNAME

[William Hooper]

Chadley Wilson said:
[snip]
> I know, I got that, its just that there seems to be a spook in this
> config somewhere, I don't know where though, probably someone has added a
> hostname command to a startup script somewhere which causes the hostname
> to be set on boot, but not permanently, as in, in one of the correct
> files.

It's much more likely that your DHCP server is offering you a hostname. 
The networking scripts will always change "localhost" to the offered name.
 Pick anything else but "localhost" and it probably won't change.

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William Hooper