Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 3/13/07, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Dan Nicholson wrote:
>>> Out of the box, an LFS system will report (None) as the domainname.
>> which is correct, because LFS never sets up NIS. The domainname is not the
>> DNS domain name but a NIS thing. Wyou want to modify resolv.conf.
> 
> Do you have any pointers to documentation?

Yes, Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt in the kernel source.

> For instance, I thought it would be a decent idea to put
> localhost.localdomain as an alias to the loopback device in hosts
> (prior to configuration while bootstrapping). The perl testsuite
> failed when the returned domainname was localdomain. At least I think
> this is what was happening. This could be a bug in my setup or a bug
> in perl's testsuite. It passed when I changed the alias to
> localhost.localdomain.org.

I will look into this after resolving LiveCD issues with Xorg-7.2 video card 
autodetection and HAL+xfce+iocharset issue.

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