From: Jan-Benedict Glaw Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 00:01:58 GMT Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] I2C and W1 bugfixes for 2.6.12-rc2 Message-ID: <20050420000158.GO8765@lug-owl.de> In-Reply-To: On Tue, 2005-04-19 15:43:54 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > > > > Correct me if I am wrong, but the right way to do this is to set the > > hostname to just that - the hostname, and add 'domain foo.com' > > to /etc/resolv.conf. > > I'll correct you. > > The fact is, that's not what people do. Not me, not kernel.org, not _any_ > of the machines I've got access to. They put the fully qualified name in > the hostname, and just do "search foo.com" in /etc/resolv.conf. That's not entirely correct. Actually, basically all machines (administered by a number of people) only have the real hostname in /etc/hostname and a domain entry in /etc/resolv.conf . > So clearly, expecting that people work the way you claim is being > extremely optimistic. I'm sure some people do that too, but I suspect I'm > in the majority. Both Fedora Core and YellowDog act the way I described, > not the way you do.. Maybe these two do it that way. I just checked a recently installed Debian box--they to it the way I'm used to^W^W^WMartin describes it. MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg _ _ O fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürger" | im Internet! | im Irak! O O O ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA));