-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 28.02.2015 Jan Engelhardt wrote:
(open)SUSE itself has used different approaches over time, i.e. sometimes with FQDN, sometimes without.
I know, that was one of my reasons for asking, to get an up-to-date state.
Since the abandonment of /etc/domainname and leaving the "kernel.domainname" sysctl empty some decade ago, the distro generally chose to put the FQDN in /etc/hostname, and the initial installation with yast would write linux-4qfn.site into /etc/hostname, too.
OK. Good to know.
Under the right circumstances, certain internet-facing daemons can emit a domainname-less hostname into transmissions, which may not be desired in all cases. (I am thinking of smtp here where half-assed and unresolvable EHLO statements could in theory raise spam scores.) So using FQDN whereever possible and now relying on DNS tacking it on somewhere, is a good approach for now.
Jan, thanks for the answer. Is this somehow documented somewhere (apart from the mailing list archives, where it is now...)? To be honest, I found it pretty sad that there is so little documentation for system on openSUSE. Somehow Archlinux has a wiki full of stuff about it, and I assume their userbase is a little smaller. But again, 'wiki' is a boomerang, someone will say 'go fix it yourself, it's a wiki'. Yeah I could, if only I had time... ;-( Regards, Johannes - -- The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they 've found it. (Terry Pratchett, Monstrous regiment) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with SeaMonkey - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlTx1j4ACgkQzi3gQ/xETbKMmQCfXtgEx/CgGoNhvxHILDpP0J5F yBEAni4sy6pUILBcz1TRRLYW02gtIJyf =Inu4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org