On 7/24/19 10:38 AM, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: > On 2019-07-24 16:27, Chet Ramey wrote: >> Thanks for the patch. This is system-dependent: there are systems, like >> mine, where `hostname' returns the system's FQDN. It all depends on the >> administrator's choices. > > Can you tell me more about your system and how you (your administrator) > set up your system so that hostname will return FQDN?
I use Mac OS X:
caleb.ins.cwru.edu(1)$ hostname
caleb.ins.cwru.edu
caleb.ins.cwru.edu(1)$ hostname -f
caleb.ins.cwru.edu
caleb.ins.cwru.edu(1)$ uname -a
Darwin caleb.ins.cwru.edu 18.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 18.6.0: Thu Apr 25
23:16:27 PDT 2019; root:xnu-4903.261.4~2/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
>
> I hope you are not talking about putting FQDN into a file which is
> expecting hostname only...
There is no `file', and there's no requirement that `hostname' not return
the FQDN.
>
> Or in other words: At the moment I am wondering what should be wrong on
> my system or on Debian/Ubuntu out of the box: You set hostname to
> hostname only (no FQDN) and set domain option in /etc/resolv.conf for
> example for FQDN. But maybe I am missing something.
The world isn't all Linux.
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