On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 11:39:33PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: First of all, I am very sorry for the big delay I have caused in this topic. I was not aware of your mail and that you are waiting for a response since I have not read this list for quite a while (I thought consensus was found since the patch was attached to the bug tracker.)
> On Monday 10 December 2007, Josef Wolf wrote: > > IMHO, the setting in /etc/resolv.conf is mostly for convenience. It > > saves me some typing, that's all. In contrast, the setting in /etc/hosts > > is more important since it is needed to make "hostname -d" and > > "hostname -f" work. > > Right. I'd forgotten about hosts. > > Could you try the attached patch to the postinst? I've also attached the > full file in case you can just copy it onto the system. > > This patch should make ppp-udeb generate the hosts file the same as netcfg > does for systems with dynamic IP. > Please try with both a set and an empty domain name. Works great for me. I'd suggest one little change, though: use echo -e "127.0.0.1\tlocalhost.localdomain localhost" > /etc/hosts instead of echo -e "127.0.0.1\tlocalhost" > /etc/hosts Thanks for your efforts and sorry for the delay! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]