Bug#637627: hostname -A has multiple values

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Mon, 3 Aug 2015, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:

> what about adding a cut -d " " -f 1?

This probably works… but I’d either do something like:

mailname=$(hostname -f 2>/dev/null || hostname -A)
echo ${mailname%% *} >…/etc/mailname

Or, even better maybe, copy the /etc/mailname file from outside.

That being said, with USENETWORK=no, it shouldn’t even need one…

bye,
//mirabilos
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