On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 10:37:12AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > Its in there, for this machine, but on a reboot, the domainname reverts to > "none" Apparently I didn't use the approved systemd way to change it. > from a cat of /etc/hosts: > 192.168.71.3 coyote.home.arpa coyote
What command are you using that shows you the word "none" in its output? Please show us the shell prompt, the command, and its complete output. You wrote "domainname" with no spaces above. That happens to be the name of an NIS command, domainname(1). Are you running that? If so, then the answer is "stop running domainname". It's for NIS systems, and I don't believe you're using NIS. It's *completely normal* to get this result on a system that doesn't use NIS: unicorn:~$ domainname (none) If you were getting something *other* than this previously, then I'd say you had a misconfiguration. Unless you had experimented with NIS at some point, and had never fully expunged it.... Note that there is also a dnsdomainname(1) command, which is completely different from domainname(1). Please read the man page for it, if you think you would like to use it.
