On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 07:33 -0800, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > The other silly thing is the "localhost.localdomain" > entry coming first. Really, what is that about??? "localhost" has > worked just fine for over 2 decades. Software understands it. What > advantage is there to rocking the boat? Accommodating some things that insist you enter a hostname with at least one dot in it. It's been a long time since I've come across something that did, though. I seem to recall it was a mail client that insisted that the mail server address must have a dot in it, and it wouldn't let me continue configuration until it did. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.9-73.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
