Re: Domain name to use on home networks
I wrote:
> The NIS stuff should be evicted from the hostname man page.
Greg writes:
> Well... maybe? While the use of NIS hostname resolution is strongly
> discouraged, it's not *forbidden*. A system admin might, in theory,
> be using NIS to serve up hostname/IP mappings, in which case the NIS
> commands and references might be needed.
Evicted to a page of their own. I realize that it won't happen.
> The part of hostname(1) that struck me as needing amendment was this:
> The host name is usually set once at system startup in
> /etc/init.d/hostname.sh (normally by reading the contents of a file
> which contains the host name, e.g. /etc/hostname).
> My Debian 12 system does not have an /etc/init.d/hostname.sh file,
> or anything else that's close to it.
My desktop, which has been upgraded many times, does have
/etc/init.d/hostname.sh. However, a recently installed Bookworm does
not.
> Whatever's reading /etc/hostname comes from another location.
systemd-hostnamed
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John Hasler
john@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA
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