On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 09:20:34AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > Should /etc/hostname contain only short hostname, or FQDN name?
> > > Is this documented anywhere?
>
> > > I've always thougth that /etc/hostname should contain short hostname.
> > > But e.g. etherconf package puts FQDN name there ...
>
> > Eh, file a bug I guess. The short name goes to hostname, and the domain goes
> > to hosts (and resolv.conf to be nicer). I've never seen it done differently
> > on Debian systems.
>
> However, I've seen problems caused by the use of the short name only in
> /etc/hostname (mostly mail-related, maybe?) and I systematically change
> this to hold the FQDN on my systems. Haven't filed a bug about this,
> because I'm not sure if it's a real bug, or if this just happens to be
> the easiest kludge for working around the other symptoms I see.
/etc/mailname
(Never seen problems myself. Always seen problems on Solaris where this
isn't as standardized as on Debian.)
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