Subject: hostname
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Tom T. Thai <tomthai@future.net>
List: current-users
Date: 11/16/1998 16:29:30
should `hostname` return FQDN or just the "host name?" The reason I ask
is because on all my NetBSD system, `hostname` seems to return the "host
name" and not FQDN.
MySQL's mysql_install_db script uses hostname to install the initial host
into it's mysql permission table. And it does a `hostname` to find it.
This is fine 'til you try to access your db from that host to only find
that mysql_install_db really expected a FQDN. So I joined mysql's mailing
list and asked that question. Apparantly most users on their say that
their `hostname` returns a FQDN.
Now I wonder if I have my system setup right or is NetBSD's `hostname` a
little different.
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