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Re: bug in hostname
From: |
Martin MOKREJŠ |
Subject: |
Re: bug in hostname |
Date: |
Tue, 7 Oct 2003 19:33:31 +0200 (CEST) |
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Steven Augart wrote:
I have the same suggestion: remove hostname from coreutils. Who needs such
a crap? ;) I already deleted that fom our installation. I want to keep rest
of coreutils.
BTW: What is the problem with kill? Another binary to be deleted?
> I could not agree more. I am not terribly pleased that there is now a
> simple-minded "hostname" command in "coreutils"; after I installed 5.0.92
> (cvs head) in my Linux machine's /usr/local/bin, suddenly the machine
> renamed itself to "--fqdn". Why? Because at least one program that
> "root" runs calls "hostname --fqdn" to get the host's fully qualified
> domain name.
>
> Linux, at least, ships with a fine "hostname" in net-tools 1.60, and I'm
> not clear on why the world needs a second one, but I wasn't part of the
> bug-coreutils list at the time that decision was made. (I've just
> searched the archives and can't find any discussion of such an issue.)
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- bug in hostname, Martin MOKREJŠ, 2003/10/07
- Re: bug in hostname, Steven Augart, 2003/10/07
- Re: bug in hostname, Jim Meyering, 2003/10/07
- Re: bug in hostname, Steven Augart, 2003/10/07
- Re: bug in hostname, Jim Meyering, 2003/10/08