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 1GDhqT-0006e9-62 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:23:38 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7HDIvvM019925; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:18:57 GMT Received: from desiato.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7HDER5M012053 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:14:27 GMT Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id E566048001 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:14:26 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:14:22 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname Message-ID: <20060817141422.37291b46@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <44E46879.7080608@infoave.net> References: <44E37755.5010800@gt.rr.com> <44E37A3B.4060903@comcast.net> <44E39107.5050609@gt.rr.com> <44E3AEB8.3080608@infoave.net> <44E3BAD4.1030802@gt.rr.com> <44E3C477.1050809@infoave.net> <44E3FA58.7060405@mid.email-server.info> <44E4008E.80600@infoave.net> <44E4063E.4020501@mid.email-server.info> <44E40C9D.5020106@infoave.net> <44E4281E.5050808@mid.email-server.info> <44E4646D.2020700@infoave.net> <44E46879.7080608@infoave.net> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.0-rc1 (GTK+ 2.8.20; powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_6zCeoO1UQ9qBOl6i5moxh2h; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 1cd35129-3c9a-4e5f-8b74-c16d6f14691e X-Archives-Hash: 631b0f341a0eead50ee6bf9c117a0153 --Sig_6zCeoO1UQ9qBOl6i5moxh2h Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:00:41 -0400, Phil Sexton wrote: > I still don't understand why the script isn't supposed to be used to > set hostnane/domainname though. Because your domain name may change while your hostname stays the same, or vice versa. Think of a laptop connected at various locations. Locking the two together in one config file works against this. --=20 Neil Bothwick Tact is the intelligence of the heart. --Sig_6zCeoO1UQ9qBOl6i5moxh2h Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE5Guxum4al0N1GQMRAltxAKDHG08kfdyIyErTVURlBq0VQfmVAwCg0nA9 HN33UiV7Cppf6YXgwcE3Cbs= =cR5o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_6zCeoO1UQ9qBOl6i5moxh2h-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list