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

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Tue Jun 7 14:44:53 UTC 2011


On 06/07/2011 08:12 AM, Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 04:25:24PM +0000, Clint Adams wrote:
>> .B /etc/hostname
>> This file should only contain the hostname and not the full FQDN.
>>
>> Please add rationale to support this claim.
> 
> Does the part about the FQDN doesn't explain the claim? What else would you
> like to see? Please see also #253956 for the history of that sentence.

Other parts of that manual page explictly refer to THE FQDN section
(e.g. "See the warnings in section THE FQDN above"); perhaps another
explicit referral would satisfy Clint?

Also, there is a typo "Ssee" should be "See" :)

Thanks,

	--dkg

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