On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 05:23:27PM +0200, Thomas Deutschmann wrote: > On 2019-07-24 16:46, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> I hope you are not talking about putting FQDN into a file which is > >> expecting hostname only... > > > > Yes, many people do precisely that. They configure their systems > > so the "hostname" command returns an FQDN, as I showed above. (Not > > my design, not my choice.) > > I consider this as misconfiguration. :( > > I can't believe that we somehow encourage people to either do something > wrong (put FQDN where just non-FQDN is expected and bypass DNS > mechanism) or use $(hostname -f) in PS1 when they want FQDN.
Your perspective is too limited. Linux-based systems are very popular, but they're not the entire Unix world. # hostname -f # hostname -f # hostname minea.eeg.ccf.org # Personally, I don't like hostname returning a FQDN, but many other people *do*. It's common. When I work on a system that's set that way, I leave it set that way. It's so common that bash has two different PS1 escape sequences to handle it. Has had them for decades, as far as I know. There is nothing "wrong" about this configuration. I don't like it, and you clearly don't like it, but our opinions only matter to us.
