Re: OT?: Now mysteriously have a hostname defined

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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.

fennix
Normally the name is set in the /etc/sysconfig/network file.
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Thank you for your suggestion. There the name is defined as
localhost.localdomain (as I expected). There was a message that this comes
from avahi and perhaps it is better to stop this program. I will be trying
this.

Fennix
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