On Wed, 13.02.13 20:23, Reindl Harald (h.rei...@thelounge.net) wrote: > >> 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
Well, read a book. The pretty host name is inherent to mDNS/DNS-SD and used in Avahi, GNOME and others for various purposes... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
