From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Schlemmer Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] I2C and W1 bugfixes for 2.6.12-rc2 Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 01:11:57 +0200 Message-ID: <1113952317.2129.17.camel@nosferatu.lan> References: <20050419043938.GA23724@kroah.com> <20050419185807.GA1191@kroah.com> <20050419194728.GA24367@kroah.com> <20050419214009.GA25681@kroah.com> <1113949783.2129.4.camel@nosferatu.lan> Reply-To: azarah@nosferatu.za.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-T10SikV9iHyofFtu70la" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Greg KH , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Apr 20 01:04:31 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DO1lI-0001FB-J4 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 01:04:08 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261736AbVDSXIR (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:08:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261737AbVDSXIR (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:08:17 -0400 Received: from ctb-mesg5.saix.net ([196.25.240.77]:49347 "EHLO ctb-mesg5.saix.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261736AbVDSXIH (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:08:07 -0400 Received: from gateway.lan (wblv-146-254-56.telkomadsl.co.za [165.146.254.56]) by ctb-mesg5.saix.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1573E3838; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 01:08:00 +0200 (SAST) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by gateway.lan (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4CBA3A2430; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 01:14:15 +0200 (SAST) Received: from gateway.lan ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gateway.lan [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 23217-03; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 01:14:12 +0200 (SAST) Received: from nosferatu.lan (nosferatu.lan [192.168.0.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher IDEA-CBC-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gateway.lan (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20CAA3A241A; Wed, 20 Apr 2005 01:14:12 +0200 (SAST) To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at nosferatu.za.org Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org --=-T10SikV9iHyofFtu70la Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 15:43 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >=20 > On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > >=20 > > 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.=20 >=20 > I'll correct you. >=20 > 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=20 > the hostname, and just do "search foo.com" in /etc/resolv.conf. >=20 > 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,=20 > not the way you do.. >=20 The interesting bit you snipped was the part where you said you do not know how to get dnsdomainname to work properly, and that I answered. Why this other crap about how 90% of the world does it? PS: If you have later tools, setting hostname to the FQDN and then still adding 'domain' to resolv.conf seems to do the right thing, although it did not some time back (and was why I said the bit about hostname only containing the hostname, else you got something like 'hostname -f' returning 'www1.foo.com.foo.com) ... --=20 Martin Schlemmer --=-T10SikV9iHyofFtu70la Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCZZA9qburzKaJYLYRAuq7AJ9yC5liNEGb1fT+tM5dPNWTMXIAfgCgjAzy b4ER7noa9gBk7o8NX6WqpGU= =UsrD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-T10SikV9iHyofFtu70la--