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 -- Thomas Binder (Gryf @ IRCNet) gryf@hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de PGP-key available on request! binder@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/
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