On 8 Jan 2001, Harry Putnam wrote:
> "Anthony E . Greene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> with out the -fqdn flag. Maybe this might explain unexpected trouble
> that may occur regarding hostname lookups like done by sendmail and
> lots of other apps.
>
> I've set the hostname to fqdn for a long while now... Anyone know what
> trouble this may cause?
>
On most of the systems I admin, hostname outputs the FQDN. On the
couple of boxes that don't, some software broke because FQDN output
was expected. Whether one would consider the system misconfigured or the
software poorly written is open to debate, my solution was to make all my
hosts uniform. So, FQDN output is what I use.
RedHat also defaults that way when networking is setup at installation
time, (4.x-6.x anyway, haven't played with 7.0 much yet).
$.02
Bill Carlson
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