On 07/12/03 Daniel Robbins wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 02:38:33AM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: > > The "problem" is that agetty displays the domainname as reported by > > /bin/domainname which is the NIS domainname that is stored in > > /etc/nisdomainname. This is irritating many people. Personally, I've > > put my domainname in /etc/domainname and symlinked > > /etc/dnsdomainname and/etc/nisdomainname to it. An IMO better > > approach would be to patch agetty to use dnsdomainname (maybe with > > another letter in /etc/issue). > > These files have confused many people in the past. Thanks to some good > work by Martin Schlemmer, we now have these files set up exactly the > way they should be. Unfortunately, some apps like agetty cater to > Linux systems that have them set up the wrong way. I agree that it > would be a good idea to find a patch for agetty to fix this cosmetic > issue.
Ok, I've gathered my remaining C knowledge (doing too much java and scripting these days) and submitted patches for agetty and the manpage on bug 22275. The patch is based on the hostname utility from net-tools. Marius -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
