Package: hostname
Version: 2.13
The command 'hostname -s' should return stripped host name as described in
manpage:
-s, --short
Display the short host name. This is the host name cut at the
first dot.
However, hostname -s does not just strip the system hostname until the first
dot, but it searches name services for hostname:
% hostname
fnote
% hostname -s
localhost
% head /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost fnote.local fnote
the 'localhost' is intentionally firsts in /etc/hosts, since 127.0.0.q
should imho always point to 'localhost'.
I expected the 'hostname -s' return string 'fnote' if the system hostname is
set to 'fnote' or the 'fnote.local', but not to search name services.
This is how e.g. FreeBSD's hostname works (-s is the only switch available
at least on FreeBSD-4.11)
If you find my expectation wrong, correct me and sorry for bugging.
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