Problem setting up wired networking

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:18:02PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 12:36 -0500, Steve Thompson wrote:
> > So NetworkManager now knows how to set the hostname properly?
> 
> Now that all depends on your definition of properly.  There are cases
> where changing the hostname of a running system will break other running
> software.  It's not a perfect world, neither option is that great.

Service 'network' for years was adjusting machine names only when
it was 'localhost' or 'localhost.localdomain' and this was done only
when an interface was going up for the first time after a boot.  So
it is doable and in many situations it is important that you are not
get stuck with 'localhost' while assigning a "fixed name" to a
machine is not feasible or desirable.

   Michal