Debian bug report logs - #1550 , boring messages ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1550: hostname -fqdn fails on the latest install disks Reply-To: Ian Jackson , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: Ian Jackson Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Thu, 05 Oct 1995 09:48:02 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Thu, 05 Oct 1995 09:48:02 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Thu, 05 Oct 1995 09:33:15 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t0e9W-000GToC; Wed, 4 Oct 95 17:27 PDT Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA08182 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Wed, 4 Oct 1995 17:26:47 -0700 Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #36) id m0t0dVD-000BzVC; Thu, 5 Oct 95 00:45 BST Received: by chiark id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Thu, 5 Oct 95 00:44 BST Message-Id: Date: Thu, 5 Oct 95 00:44 BST From: Ian Jackson To: debian-bugs@pixar.com CD Rasmussen writes ("hostname -fqdn fails on the latest install disks"): > Problem Description: > > When I type: > # hostname -f > hostname: Unknown server > > Is anyone else getting this or should I assume this is because of > strange behavior of my name server? Do you have an /etc/host.conf, and /etc/resolv.conf and an /etc/hosts, and if so, what is in them ? What did you answer to the question about your domain name during the base configuration ? Bruce Perens writes ("Bug#1547: hostname -fqdn fails on the latest install disks"): > Can you send us the hosts file? I'd like to see what the root disk put > there when you configured your system. > > My system didn't do that, by the way. Have you checked that the base disks work now if you don't supply an FQDN ? Not all systems have domain names - some just have names. Ian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Ian Jackson Subject: Bug#1550: Acknowledgement (was: hostname -fqdn fails on the latest install disks) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian GNU/Linux. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It is being forwarded to the developers' mailing list for their attention; they will reply in due course. If you wish to submit further information on your problem, please send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, but please ensure that the Subject line of your message starts with "Bug#1550" or "Re: Bug#1550" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Your message didn't have a Package: line at the start (in the pseudo-header following the real mail header), or didn't have a psuedo-header at all. This makes it much harder for us to categorise and deal with your problem report; please ensure that you say which package(s) and version(s) the problem is with next time. Some time in the future the problem reports system may start rejecting such messages. Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message received at debian-bugs-request: From debian.org!imurdock Wed Oct 11 15:49:10 1995 Return-Path: Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0t39xW-000GrWC; Wed, 11 Oct 95 15:49 PDT Received: from imagine.imaginit.com by pixar.com with SMTP id AA11752 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-request-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Wed, 11 Oct 1995 15:48:47 -0700 Received: by imagine.imaginit.com id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Wed, 11 Oct 95 17:52 EST Message-Id: Date: Wed, 11 Oct 95 17:52 EST From: imurdock@debian.org (Ian Murdock) To: debian-bugs-request@pixar.com reassign 1550 (base) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ian Jackson / iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk , with the debian-bugs tracking mechanism This page last modified 07:43:01 GMT Wed 01 Nov