Ric, I'm not sure why this upset you, but I don't think anyone was trying to moderate your question. I'm also posting this, not so much as a reply to your message but for others on the list who may not understand why this keeps coming up.
Simply put, though, the proper place for beta questions is the cooker list or bugzilla. That is not to keep things from being posted here on expert (or even newbie). It's to make sure that the developers see it on cooker. Since cooker, expert and newbie are all high volume lists, posting bugs/questions about the beta versions on cooker ensures that they are seen by the proper people. I am not a developer (nor a list moderator), but I know that both expert and newbie lists generate around 200-300 daily messages. It would be either a) quite easy to miss a bug report or b) very time consuming for a developer to search every message. Hopefully, you'll reconsider your departure from MDL. At least Mandrake gives you access to the betas and the developers. Joeb -------Original Message------- From: Ric Tibbetts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 03/13/03 12:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] 9.1rc2 Hostname problem > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:51:08PM +0000, Eric Fernandez wrote: > Ric Tibbetts wrote: > > >All; > >I installed 9.1rc2 last night, and it has an annoying problem. It won't > >let me set the hostname. It defaults it to some, very long, strange > >thing. In the past, I've always gotten round this, by forcing the > >hostname in /etc/sysconfig/network. But that trick isn't working in > >9.1rc2. > > > >The workstation is running undder DHCP, and I suspect that's where the > >name is coming from. But I've always been able to change it before. > > > >Any suggestions? Or did I miss a big one "again"? :) > > > >Thanks! > > > > Ric > > > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to <a target=_blank href="http://www.mandrakestore.com";>http://www.mandrakestore.com</a> > > > > > Do not report RC2 here, but on cooker list (or bugzilla). DHCP has been > debugged since RC2, update to latest cooker. I didn't know if it was a bug, or a feature. Which is why I asked the question, and not filed a bug report. This is not at all uncommon on this list. But thank you for being yet another, self appointed list moderator. It's good to know there are so many out there willing to interject their personal opinion as if it were law. ya know what? I've had so many problems with MDL since 9.0, that I'm just going to take it off, and re-install RedHat. It runs. Maybe I'll return to MDL when: Someone fires all the self appointed list moderators. I asked a simple question, and got a lecture. I'm tired of this. >
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