On Wed 11 Oct 2017 at 20:59:24 +0200, Dominik George wrote: > Control: reopen -1 > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 07:35:25PM +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > > It is common to use manualpage(x) as a shorthand to instruct a user to > > run the command 'man x manualpage'. Following the advice in hostname(1) > > does result in the fully-qualified hostname being displayed when the > > hostname command is used with the correct option. > > > > (Granted the command 'hostname' does not return a FQDN, but that isn't > > what is being advised). > > Thanks for teaching me UNIX basics, which is certainly not necessary -
You are welcome. > but no matter how to read a mnual page: > > The bug that CUPS does *not* default to the FQDN remains. CUPS *only* > allows the hostname part, *not* the FQDN by default, probably because > the authors use a system where the FQDN goes in /etc/hostname. If you feel there is an upstream issue in the documentation there is https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/new Cheers, Brian.
