On Fri 27 Oct 2023 at 11:13:59 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > You saw my hosts entry in the last post, but again > 192.168.71.3 coyote.home.arpa coyote > but after a reboot, domainname returns none, and the /etc/domainname > file has been deleted. As in not visible to an ls of /etc. hostname > works as it should. My hosts file is all long form, dotted names with > a trailing alias. > So I just sudo edited /etc/domainname, and entered "home.arpa\return" > and wrote the flle. > results: > > gene@coyote:/etc$ sudo nano domainnane > [sudo] password for gene: > gene@coyote:/etc$ domainname > (none) > gene@coyote:/etc$ cat domainname > cat: domainname: No such file or directory > now I see the typu. sudo mv to fx the files name. but even with a > corrected filename visible to an ls: > gene@coyote:/etc$ domainname > (none) > gene@coyote:/etc$ cat domainname > home.arpa > > I'd reboot again, but that, by the time I get everything remounted and > my system fully operational, takes me entering my pw about 20 times. > when done I am logged into 6 other machines via an ssh -X login to > each, and I've a sshfs file transfer link setup to each so mc can copy > work output around. Then I can go to work. > > Why was the domainname I set and could see with a cat, deleted by a > reboot? Seems to be the question for the day... I sure didn't delete > it. But it was gone after a reboot. Seems to me there ought to be a > PERMANENT way to do this. Now, even if the file exists, its ignored.
I'm just wondering where this file /etc/domainname came from in the first place. I can't find it with apt-file (killing two birds): $ apt-file find etc/domain $ Neither can I find it/them in the install/remove scripts for the packages on my systems: $ grep etc/domain /var/lib/dpkg/info/* $ I don't recall ever seeing either /etc/domainname or /etc/domain in the past either, as I would have my copy backed up. /etc/domainname might be anodyne on your system, but it raises suspicions when this is meant to be a recent bookworm netinst where "I'm not doing anything the installer didn't ask me to do" (posted last week). Cheers, David.
