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 1GDVE1-0003jq-CU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:55:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7GNpVvr029281; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:51:31 GMT Received: from SMTP03.INFOAVE.NET (smtp03.infoave.net [165.166.0.28]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7GNmRmb007331 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 23:48:28 GMT Received: from [208.34.232.181] by smtp.hostserver (PMDF V6.2-X31 #30772) with ESMTP id <01M62LBM2RTW8Y5AI9@smtp.hostserver> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:48:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:48:08 -0400 From: Phil Sexton Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname In-reply-to: <44E39107.5050609@gt.rr.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <44E3AEB8.3080608@infoave.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; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.8-1.1.fc4 (X11/20060501) References: <44E37755.5010800@gt.rr.com> <44E37A3B.4060903@comcast.net> <44E39107.5050609@gt.rr.com> X-Archives-Salt: 538c47f3-92d7-449f-94b3-d6c6bc89ebab X-Archives-Hash: 226a3ce8d6a56200a0f9e83e46e5df97 Anthony E Caudel wrote: > Mike wrote: > >>Anthony E. Caudel wrote: >> >>>As of baselayout-1.12.4, the domainname init script is no longer used >>>and the Gentoo Handbook no longer tells how to set the domainname. >>>domainname now returns "(none)" >>> >>>/etc/conf.d/net.example talks about setting up dns_domain but if this is >>>used, it overwrites /etc/resolv.conf. >>> >>>So how is the domainname now set? >>> >>>Tony >> >>/etc/hosts ? > > > Well, perhaps. It is in my /etc/hosts. But domainname still returns (none) > > Tony You should stop using /etc/hostname and use /etc/conf.d/hostname -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free tunes: ftp://fancypiper.info/ Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list