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