On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 05:20:05PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > Well /etc/hostname is supposed to contain the hostname as the name suggests.
A FQDN _is_ a hostname. > If your system is named host.foo.org and you use it in domain bar.org you will > end up with a fqdn that's not equal to your /etc/hostname but has a different > domain suffix, right? Or what do I miss? There are plenty of multi-homed machines in the world that have different initial components of their hostnames depending on domain name or network interface. The running kernel only has one canonical hostname though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org