-----Original Message----- 
From: Vladimir Mosgalin
>
>Hi Torpey List!
>
> On 2013.01.20 at 11:02:38 -0600, Torpey List wrote next:
>
>> /etc/sysconfig/network has only the following:
>> NETWORKING=yes
>> HOSTNAME=nala.
>> DOMAIN=example.com
>>
>> I see the trailing period at the end of the Hostname and have removed it. 
>> I have also added "NM_CONTROLLED=no" to ifcfg-eth0.
>>
>> This certainly an improvement and fixes the issue that I was having. 
>> However, I am not sure if there is another issue that >will pop up 
>> because there is no domainname.
>
>Glad that it helped!
>
>Output from "domainname" doesn't matter, this is mostly obsolete
>command, and unless you're using NIS (and it's almost guaranteed that you
>don't) you shouldn't care about it.
>
>What you probably want is "dnsdomainname" command.

Thank you for the help.  the dnsdomainname does provide the correct domain 
name. This issue is resolve!

Thanks again,
Steve

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Vladimir