Hello, I have a notebook which I often move between sites and ocasionally use without network connection. I have set up hostname to 'fnote' and set up /etc/hosts this way:
127.0.0.1 localhost fnote.local fnote This means, that "fnote" resolves along with "fnote.local" and of course "localhost" to 127.0.0.1, while 127.0.0.1 resolves to "localhost" - I've logically expected that 127.0.0.1 should always resolve to "localhost" and vice versa. (searching google supports this opinion) However, when programming a script that uses `hostname -s` convention to get the first component of the hostname (some people use to set hostname to their FQDN and I'd like my script to be portable), I found out that `hostname -s` command does not only strip the hostname until the first dot, but it first tries to get the FQDN and then it strips the first part. Thinking it's a bug in hostname I filled bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=345761 however the report was rejected and closed because the maintainer says "It's not a bug". I don't agree with this opinion, but I'd like to ask in public, if you think my setup is correct. -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. Emacs is a complicated operating system without good text editor. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
