On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Rene Rebe wrote:

> > folks, the problem i`m adressing to is the fact that xfree86 4.2.0
> > (as does 4.1.0 and 3.3.6) makes an assumption that hostname
> > accepts the -f otopin, which isnt necessarily true,
> > (infact in most cases its not).

> > this leads to the hostname of the boxen being brutally forced to be -f

> Which hostname doesn't deal with the option? I had this problem during
> mirgation to gcc-3.0.x where gcc3 simply generated no vaild code and
> so the very normal hostname did not understand any option ...

Only the `hostname` from net-tools recognizes -f.  The one from GNU's
shell utilities doesn't.

Marc.

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