Re: [PATCH] Add compile domain (was: Re: [PATCH] Well, Linus seems to like Lordi...)

>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.


Jan Engelhardt
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