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  • From: Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Hostname getting lost
  • Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:06:18 -0800

Hah, the move to coreutils hostname changed the options for hostname.
Thanks for pointing this out. Would you mind filing a bug in
bugs.sourcemage.org?

Seth (top posting)

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 11:47:37AM +1300, Robin Sheat wrote:
> 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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>
> Hostes alienigeni me abduxerunt. Qui annus est?
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