Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 16:13:47 -0400
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add compile domain (was: Re: [PATCH] Well, Linus seems to like Lordi...)
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On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 08:40:59PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> # cat /proc/version
> Linux version 2.6.17-rc4 (jengelh@shanghai) (gcc version 4.1.0 (SUSE 
> Linux)) #1 Sat May 20 00:06:16 CEST 2006
> # hostname
> shanghai
> # hostname --fqdn
> shanghai.hopto.org
> # dnsdomainname
> hopto.org
> 
> If the FQDN was already in the kernel, I would not have submitted this.
> Frankly, the only that that I have not done was compile test it :)
>
> Oh in that case you just found a bug in suse linux.

And Debian too.  I thought it was invalid to put the FQDN as your
hostname.  Also makes updating the domain for a network harder (if one
would ever want to do so).  Putting the FQDN as my hostname, makes
hostname -f act very strange.  I think a number of tools think doing it
is wrong.

Len Sorensen
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