Re: ****OT?: Now mysteriously have a hostname defined

[root@bogon log]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain [root@bogon log]# On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:50 AM, Craig White <craigwhite(a)azapple.com&gt; 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. > ---- > what is output of? > > cat /etc/sysconfig/network > > Craig > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list(a)redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >