Your message dated Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:56:25 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#555736: hostname: [man] please clarify that
/etc/hostname is not written to
has caused the Debian Bug report #555736,
regarding hostname: [man] please clarify that /etc/hostname is not written to
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Package: hostname
Version: 3.00
Severity: minor
This command doe snot change the hostname:
hostename new
Please clarify in the manual page that
1) this change is temporary
2) /etc/hostname is not writtent to
3) To really chnage the hostname, sysadm must modify /etc/hostname
Cf. Thread "Cannot change hostname permanently"
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/10/msg00096.html
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages hostname depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-25 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
hostname recommends no packages.
hostname suggests no packages.
-- debconf-show failed
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On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 03:47:22PM +0200, jaalto wrote:
> This command doe snot change the hostname:
>
> hostename new
Sorry, I don't really understand this.
> Please clarify in the manual page that
>
> 1) this change is temporary
> 2) /etc/hostname is not writtent to
> 3) To really chnage the hostname, sysadm must modify /etc/hostname
Here's an extract from the manpage:
Note that this is effective only until the next reboot. Edit /etc/hostname for
permanent change.
Seems we already have the changes in place you'd like to see. Therefore I close
this bug report.
Mcihael
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