On 10/29/23 12:10, Max Nikulin wrote:
On 27/10/2023 23:03, gene heskett wrote:
I suggest you file a bug against this command to among other things,
clean up the language to refer to FQDN's or aliases which we are
familiar with, "static, transient or pretty" as so called choices. If
using new words for old, either define them so we do understand or
remove them in favor of names we are familiar with.
If you see a bug then why somebody else should report it?
begin rant:
Somebody who /can/ report it. I changed ISP's over a decade back, so I
am not me to bugzilla, and because I am known also by name, I can't
re-register. I can't even get a pw reset cuz it (I'm guessing here) is
sending it to my earlier ISP's, could be iolinc.net or frontier.com I
was using when I first installed redhat5.0 in 1998. Messages to the
maintainer to wipe me out of the system so I can re-register have never
been replied to.
People DO CHANGE ISP's for good reasons, like no telephone for several
months because frontier refuses to lay new buried copper that is now 70
years old, paper insulated and full of water. I repeatedly filed with
the states P.U.C. and all that got me was a letter cussing me out for
filing with the WV PUC. Screw it.
I'd heard rumors the local cable people could do phone service so I
switched it all. We had a 112 mph direcho come thru in 2010, all the
system battery's eventually went down. Did $18,000 damage to this house
and the 35 foot pin oak in the front yard was the only tree that
survived in a path about 100 foot wide and 10 miles long. Those 2 days
while putting the neighborhood utilities back together 13 years ago has
been my only phone or net failure since.
So don't give me any more static about filing my own bugs, I can't and
you've just been told why. If you want /ME/ to file bugs, fix it so I
can AND TELL ME when its been fixed.
/end rant
It is not clear for me why hostnamectl(1) should discuss FQDN. The scope
of hostnamectl is host name as it is stored in kernel structures:
gethostname(2), sethostname(2), uts_namespaces(7); and persistence
across reboots (/etc/hostname). Another part is representation of the
host in GUI and in responses to multicast service discovery ("pretty").
FQDN as described in hostname(1) is related to name resolver (hosts
entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf). So hostname(1) deals with more features
than hostnamectl. nss-myhostname(8) affects "hostname --all-fqdns", but
I am unsure if it does it in the way expected by hostname(1).
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Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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