Re: A bridge too far ...

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Clark Dunson wrote:

The hostname is usually set by the ‘hostname’ program, but not in the
Gnome case. We cannot set the hostname and recover several of our
systems due to your design choice, which by every standard is not Unix-like.



I'm trying to wrap my head around this one. I have a laptop that was
issued to me by IBM that goes with me to customer sites all the time.

At these customer sites, most of them run DHCP which sets the hostname
on my system. Very neatly I might add. Depending on whose network I'm on
my machine gets called all sorts of names. (oh.. ok.. bad pun... )

I've never had issues with Gnome in this case...

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