On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 11:49 -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote: > > Returns the non-qualified hostname (at least on this Solaris). I guess > > when > > it boils down to it, this machine is misconfigured. Sigh. > > I'm pretty sure that returning just the hostname without the domain name > is not a misconfiguration, although it is a bit annoying.
IIRC, short hostnames are required by NIS+ (and preferred for NIS) which has been around longer than linux. -- --gh
