Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

[Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name>]

Phil Sexton schrieb:
> Alexander Skwar wrote:
>> Phil Sexton schrieb:
> 
>>> I didn't think you had to run it manually unless you want to.  Can't 
>>> you call if from
>>>
>>> /etc/conf.d/local.start
>> 
>> 
>> Sure, but why do that? Why not use the mechanisms, that Gentoo
>> forsees for this?

Interestingly, you did not answer this question. Why's that so?

>>> I thought that was the purpose of that file, to run stuff you want to 
>>> on bootup.
>> 
>> 
>> That's not how I see the file. For me, the file is there to do stuff,
>> for which there's no "proper" way.
> 
> Gentoo is the only distribution I have seen use that particular file,

What file? /etc/conf.d/net?

> so
> I consider it one of the "proper" ways to do things I can't figure out 
> otherwise.

You should use /etc/conf.d/net to set the domainname.

> There is usually more than one way to "skin a cat" in Linux.

True. Some are "with the spirit", some are not so much with the spirit
of the distribution.

Alexander Skwar
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