On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 12:53:40PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> The NIS stuff should be evicted from the hostname man page.
Well... maybe? While the use of NIS hostname resolution is strongly
discouraged, it's not *forbidden*. A system admin might, in theory,
be using NIS to serve up hostname/IP mappings, in which case the NIS
commands and references might be needed.
The part of hostname(1) that struck me as needing amendment was this:
The host name is usually set once at system startup in
/etc/init.d/hostname.sh (normally by reading the contents of a file
which contains the host name, e.g. /etc/hostname).
My Debian 12 system does not have an /etc/init.d/hostname.sh file,
or anything else that's close to it.
unicorn:/etc/init.d$ grep hostname *
unicorn:/etc/init.d$
Whatever's reading /etc/hostname comes from another location.
In any case, this is clearly a man page *not* written by Debian, so
getting changes made to it is going to be like pulling teeth. Don't even
bother submitting Debian bug reports against upstream man pages, in
my experience. You can try your luck with upstream projects, but even
then it's really unlikely you'll ever get a documentation patch accepted.
