Two (related?) problems in fresh install of Fedora 19

[Ed Greshko]

On 08/16/13 01:36, William W. Austin wrote:
> This weekend I did a clean install of fedora 19 on my main workstation (I pulled the drive containing /, /tmp, and /var (plus swap) running fedora 17, and it's available to compare).
>
> I didn't care for the installer changes since 17, but I got through it alive.
>
> HOWEVER, I am now having some network problems (at least 2) and I think they are related.
>
> The first sounds trivial and isn't.  The system thinks its hostname is "nick" even though the contents of /etc/sysconfig/network say otherwise.
> That is, the hostname is set correctly there.   Also a recursive grep through /etc finds no instance of the string "nick" anywhere (nor in /boot, /boot/grub2, etc).

That is because things have changed in F18/F19.

The hostname is now stored in /etc/hostname and is manipulated using the command "hostnamectl".



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