On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Steven Augart wrote: I have the same suggestion: remove hostname from coreutils. Who needs such a crap? ;) I already deleted that fom our installation. I want to keep rest of coreutils.
BTW: What is the problem with kill? Another binary to be deleted? > I could not agree more. I am not terribly pleased that there is now a > simple-minded "hostname" command in "coreutils"; after I installed 5.0.92 > (cvs head) in my Linux machine's /usr/local/bin, suddenly the machine > renamed itself to "--fqdn". Why? Because at least one program that > "root" runs calls "hostname --fqdn" to get the host's fully qualified > domain name. > > Linux, at least, ships with a fine "hostname" in net-tools 1.60, and I'm > not clear on why the world needs a second one, but I wasn't part of the > bug-coreutils list at the time that decision was made. (I've just > searched the archives and can't find any discussion of such an issue.) -- Martin Mokrejs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP5.0i key is at http://www.natur.cuni.cz/~mmokrejs MIPS / Institute for Bioinformatics <http://mips.gsf.de> GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health Ingolstaedter Landstrasse 1, D-85764 Neuherberg, Germany tel.: +49-89-3187 3683 , fax: +49-89-3187 3585 _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
