Am 13.02.2013 20:12, schrieb Lennart Poettering: > On Wed, 13.02.13 10:23, Reindl Harald (h.rei...@thelounge.net) wrote: > >> >> >> Am 13.02.2013 03:50, schrieb Lennart Poettering: >>> On Wed, 13.02.13 05:42, Adam Nielsen (a.niel...@shikadi.net) wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>> Use hostnamectl, assuming your systemd version is new enough: >>>>> >>>>> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/hostnamectl.html >>>> >>>> Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately this doesn't seem to work: >>>> >>>> $ hostnamectl set-hostname korath.my.domain.com >>> >>> So, we currently clean up names here a bit too drastically >> >> you are making a big mistake here >> if you think the input is wrong stop with a error message >> but do NOT write different things as the users input in config files >> >> this is a very bad style which became visible with this bug > > Well, it's not as simple as it might appear. "hostnamectl set-hostname" > actually sets the pretty hostname (and should do that unaltered), then > strips all the weird chars and sets the result as the unix hostname. You > should always have the pretty hostname in place. > > The idea is that "Lennart's PC" as pretty hostname becomes "lennarts-pc" > as Unix hostname
and this idea is wrong there is no need for a "pretty hostname" * a hostname is a hostname with it's rules * a pretty name is a pretty name with no technical relation
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