James A. Robinson wrote: > > The hostname stuff works fine on debian 1.1.X. Seems that rex contains > > an incompatible version. Will fix it on next release. > > Yeah, hostname 1.9 accepted the single dash, even though it doesn't > claim to in its help -- 2.0 works the standard GNU way of wanting > double dashs for any long option name.
hostname 1.9 and 2.0 both use the standard gnu way but hostname 1.9 only checked for one option (it just takes the option -f from -fqdn and ignores the options -q -d -n). hostname 2.0 checks the other options too and prints an error message for the unknown option(s). Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias EMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Constantiaplatz 4, 26723 Emden, Germany [EMAIL PROTECTED]
