-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Just upgraded my baselayout and noticed the deprecation of /etc/dnsdomainname in favour of /etc/conf.d/domainname .
Unless I follow the instructions [1] on Gentoo-wiki.com and in /etc/hosts point 127.0.0.1 to my FQDN first in apparent contravention of the hosts manpage, which says that the numeric address should first point to the canonical hostname in /etc/hosts, my machines all return localhost when I issue the command hostname -f . In addition, the login string on my console is somethng like this : This is awaaz.(none) .... Can we PLEASE, once and for all, have a canonical, authoritative, categorical explanation on how to set the hostname, the domainname and the FQDN for machines with and without static IPs? Cheers, Aniruddha "Karim" Shankar New Delhi, India [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Setup_Your_FQDN -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCqUyXhJkrd6A3rSsRAjLOAJ9I18Zc2XyuDq80UdoQc1XpxHuPBQCeIOOS 9vhfqRcVpgWnpE73F6ykZ4c= =GNTv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
