Hi, IMHO you are confused: /proc/sys/kernel/domainname is the NIS domain name and has nothing to do with DNS; in fact, the NIS domain can be different from the DNS domain. Thus your script is doubly wrong: on a NIS system hostnames are normally not qualified so you cannot obtain the NIS domain from the host name, and on a non-NIS system the NIS domainname should remain unset even if the hostname is qualified.
Also, mdadm currently works fine with custom-built kernels having no initramfs at all. Why break that? It would be much nicer to patch mdadm to try to read /etc/hostname directly if gethostname() returns an empty string. Regarding to the issue Marco raised: in fact it is quite common to install a machine on an internal network where it gets some random name from DHCP, and rename it when it is ready to be put at it's intended location. When you do not have physical access to the final location then finding out that the machine no longer boots with the new name may be painful. Gabor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
