Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: uname: Linux ... "unknown" | Date | Wed, 3 Feb 1999 02:22:17 +0000 (GMT) |
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> Red Hat broke it up back when "domainname" (in user space) was the NIS > domain --- resulting in a lot of confusion when people tried to set the DNS
domainname in the utent structure has is the NIS domainname
> domain name with the NIS domainname command. Presumably they'll need to > rearrange things again to make it all fit with a kernel that "knows" about > DNS domain names.
The kernel doesn't shouldn't and won't. Its bizarre enough that sys5 stuck any domain info in the kernel..
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