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How to prevent dhcpcd from setting hostname got from server? Change of it breaks a lot of things (including X session).

My current distribution is Gentoo, init system is systemd and dhcpcd is spawn by networkmanager.

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    Try using this. Commented Aug 2, 2013 at 7:42

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From n.m.'s link - the solution is described on NM webpage under 'Persistent Hostname'. One need to add to /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf:

 [main]
 plugins=keyfile

 [keyfile]
 hostname=deepspace9
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I believe you should add smth like following to your /etc/conf.d/net:

dhcpcd_eth0="-h yourhostname -H yourhostname"

P.S. You may want to check:

P.P.S. Personally I use dhclient because dhcpcd looks buggy for me.

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  • Dhcpcd is spawned by NM so I cannot control the flags passed. Besides I use systemd so openrc's configuration flags are not applicable for that reason as well. Commented Aug 9, 2013 at 6:28

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