Hello, Lloyd wrote on Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 10:18:00PM +0000: > Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> Apr 02, 1993 cgd@ commits myname(5) and mygate(5) support to NetBSD >> Jul 14, 1992 386BSD 0.1; /etc/netstart uses /etc/myname (but not mygate) > It appears the use of /etc/hostname in the Linux world dates back > to Debian 0.93 R5 or R6 which were released in 1995. > > This was predated by the use of /etc/HOSTNAME in Debian 0.91 released > in January 1994. The use of /etc/HOSTNAME is actually traced to the > convention in an early version of hostname(1) source code, the default > file when no argument was passed to `hostname -S` (/bin/hostname -S > would be called on boot). Adopting an idea conceived elsewhere, but gratuitiously renaming it in the process? This must be the first time we are seeing anything as egregiously shocking. I'm sure they'll fix it shortly after climate change causes hell to freeze over. SCNR. :-| ^\_o_/^ Yours, Ingo
