[SOLVED] Hostname: Thisfiletakesprecedenceoveretchostswhere

Some days ago I converted Arch to pure Systemd, which is a great system imho.
One lingering problem is that my /etc/hostname file (which has the same hostname as /etc/hosts is not effective?
I get the following:
handy ~ $ hostname
Thisfiletakesprecedenceoveretchostswhere
I have searched & can't find any information on this.
In /etc/hostname I have tried using each of the following to no avail:
righpc
"rightpc"
HOSTNAME="rightpc"
HOSTNAME=rightpc
Any ideas?
Last edited by handy (2012-08-18 09:52:04)

Thanks for your reply.
/etc/hostname :
handy ~ $ hostname
Thisfiletakesprecedenceoveretchostswhere
handy ~ $ cat /etc/hostname
# This file takes precedence over /etc/hosts where
# the hostname must also be included:
rightpc
/etc/hosts :
# /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names
#<ip-address> <hostname.domain.org> <hostname>
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost rightpc
#192.168.1.2 rightpc.localdomain rightpc ## the HP server
#192.168.1.3 leftpc.localdomain leftpc ## the iMac client
# End of file

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