[Hostname-devel] Bug#649485: Sometimes hostname hangs and a lot of cronjobs pile up

[Jon Bendtsen]

Package: hostname
Version: 3.04
Severity: normal


Sometimes I experience that hostname hangs without giving a reply. This results in a
lot of cronjobs piling up and occasionally filling /tmp.

Could we get some sort of parameter for hostname such that it never waits more than
given time for an answer.

Or could we get such that cronjobs never pile up


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.3
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (10, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-vserver-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages hostname depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-10  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

hostname recommends no packages.

hostname suggests no packages.

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