Dear coreutils maintainers, dear Mr. Meyering, it has come to my attention, that using gnu coreutils on a non GNU system such as FreeBSD can yield serious problems.
The main problem arises because the FreeBSD hostname accepts an -s parameter, which will trimm off any domain information from the printed name. So if I use hostname -s (without path) within /etc/rc.conf and happen to not execute /bin/hostname (provided by the system) but /usr/local/bin/hostname (provided by coreutils), you can surely guess, the result is certainly undesireable. I am aware, I could fix the path for hostname, but nevertheless I think it might not be a bad idea for coreutils to support -s, hence this bug report/feature request. Is there any chance that the coreutils hostname could accept a -s parameter (with the above mentioned functionality), and if omitted, simply behave like it already does? -- Gruss / Best regards | LF.net GmbH | fon +49 711 90074-0 Nicholas Stallard | Ruppmannstr. 27 | fax +49 711 90074-33 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | D-70565 Stuttgart | http://www.lf.net _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
