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

Fennix cn.stefan at gmail.com
Sun Mar 30 21:56:06 UTC 2008


On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Fennix <cn.stefan at gmail.com> wrote:

> [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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Ooops....


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