Re: Joachim Breitner 2010-06-14 <1276516697.2751.7.ca...@kirk> > > at the moment, the Debian installer creates a /etc/hosts file > > containing the local host name¹, so that this name is resolvable even > > if not registered in the DNS. Unfortunately, this is a possible cause > > of problems when the user wants to change the hostname – he has to > > change it in /etc/hosts two.
This sounds like an overly complicated solution to avoid user errors. What about simply making /etc/init.d/hostname.sh warn if the hostname isn't resolvable (locally)? I wouldn't want a .so file pulled into every program I execute (isn't that what nss does?) because some people cannot edit /etc/hosts. Christoph -- c...@df7cb.de | http://www.df7cb.de/
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