Bug#511422: errors in manpages for resolv.conf and hosts.conf

2012-10-25 Thread Simon Paillard
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 03:09:31AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Wed, 2012-10-24 at 00:29 +0200, Simon Paillard wrote: > > It does work: > > # hostname > > toshi > ok so I guess you have set something like > toshi.debian.org toshi > in /etc/hosts > and hostname -f would resul

Bug#511422: errors in manpages for resolv.conf and hosts.conf

2012-10-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey.. On Wed, 2012-10-24 at 00:29 +0200, Simon Paillard wrote: > (some years after) Let me see what I meant back then, as this is so long ago ;) > It does work: > # hostname > toshi ok so I guess you have set something like toshi.debian.org toshi in /etc/hosts and hostname -f would r

Bug#511422: errors in manpages for resolv.conf and hosts.conf

2012-10-23 Thread Simon Paillard
Hi, (some years after) On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 07:33:48PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Package: manpages > Version: 3.15-1 > Severity: important > > The resolv.conf manpage says that defaults for domain and search are > generated when not specified... however it seems that this is si

Bug#511422: errors in manpages for resolv.conf and hosts.conf

2009-01-31 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi Michael. Sorry for that ultra long delay ;) On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 12:12 +1300, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > Support for this claim (ecxamples, tests) would make this report more useful. We have the following here: A host lcg-lrz-se.lrz-muenchen.de . When I set either: domain lrz-muenchen.de or se

Bug#511422: errors in manpages for resolv.conf and hosts.conf

2009-01-12 Thread Michael Kerrisk
Hello Christoph, On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Package: manpages > Version: 3.15-1 > Severity: important > Hi. > > The resolv.conf manpage says that defaults for domain and search are > generated when not specified... however it seems that this is simply not t

Bug#511422: errors in manpages for resolv.conf and hosts.conf

2009-01-10 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Package: manpages Version: 3.15-1 Severity: important Hi. The resolv.conf manpage says that defaults for domain and search are generated when not specified... however it seems that this is simply not the case. The thing with "the root domain is assumed" might be wrong, too. What is the prio