On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Josh Triplett <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The "hostname" tool falls back to setting the hostname to "localhost" if
> /etc/hostname does not exist. Distribution init scripts have the same
> fallback. However, if userspace never calls sethostname, such as when
> booting with init=/bin/sh, or otherwise booting a minimal system without
> the usual init scripts, the default hostname of "(none)" remains,
> unhelpfully appearing in various places such as prompts
> ("root@(none):~#") and logs. Furthermore, "(none)" doesn't typically
> resolve to anything useful.
Ok, I'm fine with this. So Ack as far as I'm concerned.
Does this make most sense through the networking tree, or what?
Linus
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