From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GOpcm-0002ju-61 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 05:55:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8H5sn90015205; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 05:54:49 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8H5og84007441 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 05:50:42 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7236645AE for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 05:50:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 32128-11 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 05:50:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73AA46432F for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 05:50:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GOpXy-0002zy-LK for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 07:50:30 +0200 Received: from mue-88-130-90-217.dsl.tropolys.de ([88.130.90.217]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 07:50:30 +0200 Received: from listen by mue-88-130-90-217.dsl.tropolys.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2006 07:50:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Alexander Skwar Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the new "domainname" situation? Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 07:50:28 +0200 Organization: =?UTF-8?B?LsK3Lg==?= Message-ID: <1878303.AA6ZmqbnTS@m-id.message-center.info> References: <450CCF71.7020007@veldy.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: mue-88-130-90-217.dsl.tropolys.de User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 Sender: news X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.57 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.029, BAYES_00=-2.599] X-Spam-Score: -2.57 X-Spam-Level: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k8H5sn9E015205 X-Archives-Salt: 7f70d1ff-fc81-4b1d-a2b6-b8ea7b273dac X-Archives-Hash: 343e427c656698615cd881ebbd333b34 =C2=B7 Thomas T. Veldhouse : > How is it that the baselayout has changed and now the domainname script= =20 > is missing from /etc/init.d and all sorts of other ramifications becaus= e=20 > of this? "this" =3D=3D you, not configuring the system? > It makes very little sense to ditch the unix norm of setting a=20 > systemwide domain name in favor of doing it per interface! True. And that's probably why you don't *have* to set it per interface. But I agree, it makes no sense to even be able to set this per interface. At least I don't see how or when this could be useful and how this should work. > Now I see =20 > that I have to set domainname in /etc/conf.d/net and that the domainnam= e=20 > program returns "(none)". A lot of software is affected by this By "what"? By a misconfigured system? Alexander Skwar, who also was quite surprised when the domainname configuration moved to /etc/conf.d/net. --=20 The eternal feminine draws us upward. -- Goethe --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list