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Re: [MiNT] kernel development
On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 06:11:24PM +0300, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:
> > Why not make gethostname and sethostname kernel calls?
> > Sethostname should either be called by /etc/rc.net or - which I think
> > makes more sense with MiNT - in mint.cnf.
>
> Actually, as Robert pointed out, systems that use DNS to set the
> domain on the fly won't work with hard-coded domains or hostnames.
Ah, I see, I didn't know that you can't use DNS with Linux. ;-)
For the average user it will do to set host and domain name from mint.cnf,
for more advanced installations you could still do that in the startup
scripts.
Ciao
Guido
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