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Whoa, it exists and is part of kdelibs. Thanks, I will try to poke |
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around with it next time it will happen. Meanwhile, I'll try to figure |
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out where the hostname change is from (which really bothers me) |
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Regards Ladislav Laska |
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S pozdravem Ladislav Laska |
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xmpp/jabber: ladislav.laska@××××××.cz |
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On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> Ladislav Laska posted on Mon, 01 Nov 2010 23:17:02 +0100 as excerpted: |
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>> thanks for your reply. This is what I suspected, but I don't use NM and |
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>> don't recall that any of my networks try to set my hostname (I connect |
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>> only to a dorm network, and eduroam, sometimes some dnsmasq driven lan). |
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>> I have no idea who tries to set my hostname and will investigate it (it |
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>> really seems that setting my hostname to empty string is the cause, but |
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>> still I don't know why. One idea is that something is corrupting my |
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>> memory (I would point at i915 driver, but don't really have time for |
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>> debugging). |
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> FWIW... |
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> I have no idea about kde3 as I only just discovered this app on kde4, |
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> and checked it out due to the strange name, but ... |
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> kdontchangethehostname |
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> It's now a separate package, but from what I've read, /was/ part of |
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> I believe kdelibs, before. |
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> The catch is that even tho it's an executable, it doesn't reside in |
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> the usual /usr/bin, but rather in a libexec dir, as it's normally not |
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> to be run directly by users. *IF* it exists in kde3, it likely be in |
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> a different location than the kde4 version, so what I'd suggest is... |
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> equery b kdontchangethehostname |
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> ... which, if installed, will give you both the package it's in and |
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> where the file is located. Of course, you'll have to run it using |
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> the whole path if it's not /in/ the path, but that's not a big deal. |
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> Meanwhile, here's what its help output says (trimmed the standard |
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> options, for kde4, as I said, but if it's in kde3 it should be similar): |
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> Usage: kdontchangethehostname [Qt-options] [KDE-options] old new |
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> Informs KDE about a change in hostname |
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> Generic options: |
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> --help Show help about options |
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> Arguments: |
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> old Old hostname |
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> new New hostname |
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> -- |
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> Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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> and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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