On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 18:38 -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 03:06:34PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> > Presumably uname -S and "hostname" will be modified to to update the SMF
> > property as well as read it (likewise for "domainname"?) Also, what
> > about sys-unconfig(1M)? (Or has that already been obsoleted elsewhere?)
> >
> > I wonder if system/identity:domain would better be named to reflect how
> > this is used, which is really only with NIS, right? Perhaps this
> > property ought to belong to the NIS service instead of as a system wide
> > property. (The nodename property seems more general purpose, however.)
>
> Not just NIS, but native LDAP also uses /etc/defaultdomain.
If its used for other naming systems, then I agree that the case as
proposed is the right way to handle it. The spec should note that it
is used by other naming systems.
This means that whatever those consumers are, will also need to be
updated to use SMF!
- Garrett
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