[ale] setting the system name with potato.

[Ken Nagorski]

Bingo!

	Actually it was empty... how strange. :)

Thanks
Ken

On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Kerry Benton wrote:

> ken,
> 
>    another thought... on my debian box the hostname is set on startup by 
> the script /etc/rcS.d/hostname.sh  which has basically one line :
> 
> hostname --file /etc/hostname
> 
> perhaps it was modified for some reason to statically set the name rather 
> than use the file... i.e. it looks like :
> 
> hostname sillyHostname
> 
> 
> Also, the rcS scripts run first, of course... maybe someone in the later 
> runlevel script dirs (rc1.d, etc.) is reseting it.
> 
> another $0.02,
> 
> -k-
> 
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