[Marc Haber] > /etc/init.d/hostname.sh hands over whatever it reads to /bin/hostname > verbatim. This can lead to numerous software doing funny things with > the host name.
I must admit that my personal stanse on this is that if you fill the hostname with noise and something break, you get to keep all the pieces. I do not believe it is the task of /etc/init.d/hostname.sh to hide the mistakes done by the system administrator. Hiding it might make some program work and others who uses the content of /etc/hostname directly to fail, and this seem like a bad idea to me. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel
