On Tue, 2005-04-19 15:43:54 -0700, Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Martin Schlemmer wrote:

quoted

Correct me if I am wrong, but the right way to do this is to set the
hostname to just that - the hostname, and add 'domain foo.com'
to /etc/resolv.conf. 

I'll correct you.

The fact is, that's not what people do. Not me, not kernel.org, not _any_
of the machines I've got access to. They put the fully qualified name in 
the hostname, and just do "search foo.com" in /etc/resolv.conf.

That's not entirely correct. Actually, basically all machines
(administered by a number of people) only have the real hostname in
/etc/hostname and a domain entry in /etc/resolv.conf .

So clearly, expecting that people work the way you claim is being
extremely optimistic. I'm sure some people do that too, but I suspect I'm
in the majority. Both Fedora Core and YellowDog act the way I described, 
not the way you do..

Maybe these two do it that way. I just checked a recently installed
Debian box--they to it the way I'm used to^W^W^WMartin describes it.

MfG, JBG

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