[Hostname-devel] Bug#626292: Bug#626292: man page claims that /etc/hostname should not contain fqdn

[Clint Adams]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 05:20:05PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote:
> Well /etc/hostname is supposed to contain the hostname as the name suggests.

A FQDN _is_ a hostname.

> If your system is named host.foo.org and you use it in domain bar.org you will
> end up with a fqdn that's not equal to your /etc/hostname but has a different
> domain suffix, right? Or what do I miss?

There are plenty of multi-homed machines in the world that have different
initial components of their hostnames depending on domain name or network
interface.  The running kernel only has one canonical hostname though.