Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that Lloyd would write on Fri Mar 28
17:18:00 2025:
>
> 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).
>
> Other preeminent Linux distros of the time e.g. Slackware just set
> the hostname on boot via /etc/rc.local manually.
>
> If we are arguing who is more right going by dates alone, if anyone
> should have to change it would be the Linux people. :)
>
You're all wrong. Obviously the hostname should be taken from the
contents of /etc/nodename.
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