On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:35:03PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 03:43:56PM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > Should /etc/hostname contain only short hostname, or FQDN name? > > Is this documented anywhere? > > I've always thougth that /etc/hostname should contain short hostname. > > But e.g. etherconf package puts FQDN name there ... > Eh, file a bug I guess. The short name goes to hostname, and the domain goes > to hosts (and resolv.conf to be nicer). I've never seen it done differently > on Debian systems. However, I've seen problems caused by the use of the short name only in /etc/hostname (mostly mail-related, maybe?) and I systematically change this to hold the FQDN on my systems. Haven't filed a bug about this, because I'm not sure if it's a real bug, or if this just happens to be the easiest kludge for working around the other symptoms I see. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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