Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 May 2006 13:56:02 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add compile domain (was: Re: [PATCH] Well, Linus seems to like Lordi...) |
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>rceng02:~# hostname >rceng02 >rceng02:~# hostname -f >rceng02.eng.lan >rceng02:~# head -1 /etc/hosts >127.0.0.1 rceng02.eng.lan localhost.localdomain localhost >rceng02 >rceng02:~# > >I always thought that was how it worked. The first hostname in >/etc/hosts on the line containing the short name was used as the FQDN. >Maybe that is only a gnu hostname thing. I seem to recall solaris had a >domainname file that was used to find the domain part of the FQDN >instead. > What a mess. I would prefer to see Linux distributions have 127.0.0.1 localhost in their /etc/hosts (to have the standard 127.0.0.1<->localhost mapping) and /etc/HOSTNAME contain the hostname, which is sethostname()d/setdomainname()d by init scripts and gethostname()d by apps.
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