****OT?: Now mysteriously have a hostname defined

[Fennix]

[root at bogon log]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain
[root at bogon log]#

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:50 AM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 05:44 +0800, Fennix wrote:
> > I noticed today in my terminal window I now have a host name of
> > "bogon".  I had never set a hostname for my Fedora8 home system.  I
> > can see from my logwatch and cron system mails that the delivery to
> > this host name started March 25th but none of my mails shows anything
> > that seems relevant to what has set this hostname.  Oddly on the 26th
> > the system mails were addresses again to localhost.localdomain but
> > again reverted on the 27th to being addresses to bogon.  I have
> > checked the man pages on the hostname command to locate where the name
> > is defined.  Have checked the
> > files /etc/host, /etc/hosts.conf, /etc/hostname (does not
> > exist), /etc/nsswitch.conf, ... but this name does not show in any of
> > the files I have looked at so far.  Any ideas where to look further?
> > I am now wondering whether my system has been compromised somehow...
> > Googleing the word bogon shows me the meaning of of bogon which does
> > not seem helpful in this case.
> >
> > Checking /var/log/messages-20080330 shows the use of this hostname
> > with a reboot I had done on the 24th.  Still cannot see where or how
> > this was set.
> ----
> what is output of?
>
> cat /etc/sysconfig/network
>
> Craig
>
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