[SOLVED] NetworkManager ifcfg-rh persistent hostname not found

[m1boli]

F18: The ifcfg-rh plugin in NetworkManager is supposed to pick up the persistent hostname from the traditional settings file: /etc/sysconfig/network. (The HOSTNAME= variable)

This seemed to be working OK in F17.

But my first F18 comes up localhost, even though HOSTNAME= is set in /etc/sysconfig/network.

In /var/log/messages I can see ifcfg-rh parsing the sysconfig/network-scripts/*cfg configuration files. It is picking up the correct other information (static IP, netmask, dns, etc.) from there.

I tried adding the keyfile plugin and the hostname to NetworkManager.conf:
[main]
plugins=ifcfg-rh,keyfile

[keyfile]
hostname=mglass

But this also no workee.

I am using the LXDE live-CD, installed to a hard drive.

I don't have a working nm-applet. The applet is there, but it doesn't display much of what you would want and I don't have Gnome to try it with. (I would prefer to also have a normal system management settings application!)

I was using this page for documentation: https://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/SystemSettings

[DBelton]

Fedora 18 no longer uses the hostname in /etc/sysconfig/network. It now gets it from /etc/hostname.

You can set the hostname by using hostnamectl

hostnamectl set-hostname --static hostname.domainname

You can also edit your /etc/hostname and put it in manually as well.

[m1boli]

Thank you very much!

hostnamectl seems to work as indicated.

(Editing /etc/hostname manually is what I did two decades ago, before several generations of network management software came along.)

---------- Post added at 07:55 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:13 AM ----------

Two questions remain:

-- What is the new preferred method for setting up a fixed IP and host name in Fedora? Up until now I was using system-config-network (usually the -tui Curses version). In F17 with the new NetworkManager, the fixed settings were being picked up via the ifcfg-rh plugin.

The plugin is still there, picking up most of the settings, but it is no longer picking up the hostname. Either a) I should learn what is the replacement for system-config-network[-tui] or b) that program should be updated to do what hostnamectl is doing.

-- It seems to me that the NetworkManager documentation at https://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/SystemSettings might be out of date.