Package: hostname
Version: 3.01
Severity: normal
I know it's a recurring theme, but IMO hostname is broken when
you use a FQDN as the hostname. There are people who say you
should not do that - and yet there are OSes that do this by default.
In our case, we're converting FreeBSD boxes to Debian boxes
and existing software assumes a FQDN as hostname.
Now the current hostname can /set/ a FQDN as hostname:
# hostname test.xs4all.nl
(no errors)
.. but it is impossible to print it:
# hostname
test
However, the long hostname was set:
# uname -n
test.xs4all.nl
The manpage says:
GET NAME
When called without any arguments, the program displays the current
names:
hostname will print the name of the system as returned by the gethost‐
name(2) function.
This is not true.
The manpage also says:
-s, --short
Display the short host name. This is the host name cut at the
first dot.
It now appears that -s is the default and there is no way to turn
it off.
Please fix hostname to follow the manpage.
Mike.
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