On Fri 13 Apr 2018 at 12:53:21 (-0000), Dan Purgert wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Friday, April 13, 2018 08:14:19 AM Dan Purgert wrote: > >> john doe wrote: > >> > As ilustrated by the above not every one is an english speaker and could > >> > misunderstand the point you are trying to make! :) > >> > >> Even us native English speakers have trouble understanding what point > >> he's trying to maks :) > > > > +1--- not only because he (David) quotes too much--he (David) could do > > with some strategic snipping of the quoted material. > > Honestly, my trouble parsing his posts is that the questions aren't > "correct" (or perhaps they're just too subtle for my comprehension) -- > leading to several rounds of miscommunication.
Well, here's a chance to correct my questioning. In https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/03/msg01049.html the OP wanted to change the name of the domain of their computer from .local to .home. They wrote "It's not just domainname and /etc/hosts. It's every frigging where." As usual, the thread drifted into other areas; someone suggested looking at the wiki https://wiki.debian.org/HowTo/ChangeHostname but hostnames weren't the issue, just the domain's name. After asking the question "Where is this 'every frigging where?'" I'm told to do a recursive grep. Not exactly an answer to that question. I listed the places where *I* could find the domain name corp on a computer here (I assume you could understand that). I did a recursive search of /etc and /var and eliminated the strings [a-z0-9]corp and corp[a-z0-9]. In short, there were three significant files. /etc/hosts /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf /etc/mailname Is that 'every frigging where'? Cheers, David.
