Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 17 May 1998 15:04:22 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | | Subject | Re: Bug in set/gethostname. |
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On Sun, 17 May 1998, Trevor Johnson wrote: > > > Usually you set the hostname once, at bootup. > > I use dynamic PPP, and have /bin/hostname called from /etc/ppp/ip-up to > set a hostname that matches the dynamically assigned IP address. I've > never noticed the name getting corrupted.
Ok, convinced. I thought ppp would only set the IP address, but if you have cases where it is validly set by automatic scripts like this, then I completely agree with Alan.
Should be trivial to fix.
Alan, I just wanted a _reason_.
Linus
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