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[Robin Sheat <robin AT kallisti.net.nz>]

Hey there, sometimes when doing a system-update, something sets my 
hostname to either -a or -f. (so far, it's happened twice). 
I haven't got any clue what it is. My initial suspect would be dovecot, 
because the last sorcery log I had today was from ant, the problem 
upsets postfix. Dovecot was what was cast immediatly after ant. 

Just had a look in the dovecot build:
robin@kallisti:/var/lib/sorcery/codex/test/mail/dovecot$ grep -r 
hostname *
BUILD:  HOSTNAME=`hostname -a`                                                
 &&
$ hostname --help
Usage: hostname [NAME]
  or:  hostname OPTION
Print or set the hostname of the current system.

      --help     display this help and exit
      --version  output version information and exit

Report bugs to <bug-coreutils AT gnu.org>.
$ hostname -a
hostname: cannot set hostname to `-a': Operation not permitted

it seems that -a isn't really an option (even though the man page says 
it is).

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