-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 February 2003 06:20 am, Buchan Milne wrote: > Teletchéa Stéphane wrote: > > Le mar 25/02/2003 à 14:47, Greg Meyer a écrit : > > > > This needs a fix. > > If no network name is defined, the localhost.localdomain must be present > > in order to fix the error message and connection into gnome. > > IMHO, localhost.localdomain should *never* be used. The user should be > prompted for a machine name (regardless) once, and > > 1)If on a network with dhcp etc, the network should handle name resolution > 2)If on a network without dhcp etc, zeroconf can do its thing > 3)If and only if no network, do: > > echo -e ?127.0.0.1\\t\\t `hostname`? >> /etc/hosts > I don't think anybody cares the technicalities of how it gets done, just that the installer or the post install config take care of it so the message does not show up anymore. Of course I really didn't mean they don't *care*, just that the point being debated is whether this is a bug that needs to be fixed, somehow.
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