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[Paul <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

The grimoire has two conflicting versions of hostname. One of them is
stupid, the other is good. One is from coreutils, the other is from
net-tools. Try cast -c one, run hostname as a user, see if you get the
error, if so cast -c the other. 

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 06:47, 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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