Re: [GIT PATCH] I2C and W1 bugfixes for 2.6.12-rc2
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- Kenneth Johansson <ken@kenjo.org>
- Date
- Apr 19, 2005, 23:04 UTC
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- <42658E9B.4030609@kenjo.org>
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- <20050419223303.GB25966@kroah.com>
Greg KH wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 06:27:38PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > >>On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 03:00:04PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >>> >>>On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Greg KH wrote: >>> >>>>It looks like your domain name isn't set up properly for your box (which >>>>is why it worked for you, but not me before, causing that patch). >>> >>>No, I think it's a bug in your domainname changes. I don't think you >>>should do the domainname at all if the hostname has a dot in it. >>> >>>Most machines I have access to (and that includes machines that are >>>professionally maintained, not just my own cruddy setup) says "(none)" to >>>domainname and have the full hostname in hostname. >>> >>>And even the ones that use domainname tend to not have a fully qualified >>>DNS domain there. You need to use dnsdomainname to get that, and I don't >>>even know how to do it with standard libc. >>> >>>So how about something like this? >>> >>>(Somebody who actually knows how these things should be done - please feel >>>free to pipe up). >> >>The glibc documentation blows for this, but what getdomainname comes >>from uname(2), not from any DNS-related configuration. Debian only >>ever sets this if you're using NIS. > > > Well, somehow Gentoo sets this up properly, and I'm not using NIS. Hm, > my SuSE boxes on the other hand...
I have to agree with Daniel on this one. The domainname is related to nis and can be whatever you want it has nothing to do with DNS domains. Similar to a realm in kerberos
This is how it's used both on debian and solaris(don't use much else) and is consistent with Linus claim that it's common to have none.