From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: What is up with the new "domainname" situation?
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:12:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609182112.37762.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060918141738.313be8f2@krikkit.digimed.co.uk>
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On Monday 18 September 2006 14:17, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:47:03 +0100, Mick wrote:
> > When I logon I can see in the console:
> >
> > "This is lappy.(none) (Linux i686 2.6.7-gentoo-r8) 13.31.51"
> >
> > Where is this "(none)" being read from? As in which files and which
> > particular entry in that file?
>
> /etc/issue sets the login output. A \o in there is replaced by the NIS
> domain, \O by the DNS domain.
# cat /etc/issue
This is \n.\O (\s \m \r) \t
So, it should read my DNS domain name. But it doesn't.
> > Unlike Alex's earlier example I do not need to set up DNS servers
> > addresses, or other IP addresses as these are picked up by the dhcpcd
> > server from my hardware router.
i.e. as far as my laptop is concerned the router (192.168.0.1) is the dns
server.
> Does your router set the domain correctly? What does "hostname -d" give?
I'm afraid it gives nothing!
# hostname -d
#
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Regards,
Mick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-18 20:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-17 4:30 [gentoo-user] What is up with the new "domainname" situation? Thomas T. Veldhouse
2006-09-17 5:50 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2006-09-17 8:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-09-17 9:05 ` Alexander Skwar
[not found] ` <20060917102431.76c4dbba@krikkit.digimed.co.uk>
2006-09-17 9:49 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2006-09-17 11:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Mick
2006-09-17 12:43 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2006-09-17 13:48 ` Mick
2006-09-17 14:45 ` Kevin O'Gorman
2006-09-17 16:59 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2006-09-17 17:35 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2006-09-17 19:02 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
[not found] ` <450D8B18.8010706@veldy.net>
2006-09-17 19:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2006-09-17 19:36 ` [gentoo-user] Re: " Drew
2006-09-17 16:19 ` [gentoo-user] " Timothy A. Holmes
2006-09-17 17:30 ` Richard Fish
[not found] ` <450D88F6.1080508@veldy.net>
2006-09-17 19:02 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2006-09-18 12:47 ` Mick
2006-09-18 13:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-09-18 20:12 ` Mick [this message]
2006-09-19 8:35 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-09-19 12:51 ` Thomas T. Veldhouse
2006-09-19 20:06 ` Mick
2006-09-24 10:31 ` Mick
2006-09-17 23:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Ryan Tandy
2006-09-18 15:35 ` Sigi Schwartz
2006-09-18 16:29 ` Ryan Tandy
[not found] ` <87hcz6u2cz.fsf@newsguy.com>
2006-09-17 12:45 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
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