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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

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).
> 
> -- 
> Robin <robin AT kallisti.net.nz>                 JabberID: <eythian AT jabber.org>
> 
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