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Re: [MiNT] kernel development



Hi!

On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 01:32:13PM +0300, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:
> why not have the kernel look
> for /etc/hostname file and , if found, export the value as the
> HOSTNAME string?

It's not the kernel's responsibility to set environment variables (other
than those explicitly requested in mint.cnf), especially if their
contents depends on a specific file in a specific file system layout.
Use your system startup script(s) to set them, as all other UNIXes do,
too.

> Any way this could be fixed?

I'll have to try to reproduce that, first.


Ciao

Thomas


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