problem with hostname

Oliver Grawert ogra at ubuntu.com
Sat Jul 11 09:41:33 UTC 2009


hi,
On Sa, 2009-07-11 at 03:01 +0000, pkaplan1 at comcast.net wrote:
> kappa01@:~$ cat /etc/hostname
...
> 
> As you can see, the system prompt does not include the hostname
> wlsdev18-2, thus my consternation especially since I did not knowingly
> make a change.
did you fiddle with your initscripts ? 
/etc/rcS.d/S02hostname.sh (which links to /etc/init.d/hostname.sh) is
the script that reads /etc/hostname and sets the system name
accordingly ... check if both are in place 

ciao
	oli
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