Quoting Tim Showalter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Hi. I'm curious why my Debian systems always answers getdomainname()
> with "(none)". Actually, one of the FreeBSD machines I use responds
> with "", but I'm still curious why it doesn't work.
$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/domainname
(none)
$
is where (none) comes from.
> It looks like the dnsdomainname only uses getdomainname() if you ask
> about NIS. Both glibc and the hostname source seem to agree on this.
>
> What am I missing, or is the documentation just bogus?
In /usr/local/src/kernel-source-2.2.15/Documentation/proc.txt it says
domainname and hostname
These files can be controlled to set the NIS domainname and
hostname of your box. For the classic darkstar.frop.org a simple:
# echo "darkstar" > /proc/sys/kernel/hostname
# echo "frop.org" > /proc/sys/kernel/domainname
would suffice to set your hostname and NIS domainname.
so it seems you need to tell it.
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