On 2014-05-24 00:29 (GMT-0400) Anton Aylward composed:
MAN 5 hostmane talks of the file /etc/hostname which it claims is set at boot time.
This is hardly the only case of an openSUSE man page referring to something that in openSUSE does not exist due to some filename difference from upstream. cf. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=858448
Id doens't say if this is set by the command line or by something in the systemd boot sequence. Perhaps a 'systemd-hostnamed.service'?
Either way, I don't have this file, so where does that 'linux-85q8' come from? The kernel? So how did it get there if not on the command line?
You don't use mc much, do you? Same for distros other than openSUSE? Just for kicks, open mc, find /etc/zypp/ in it, then scan down a couple of lines or three. AFAICR, no other distro than openSUSE that I've ever used omits /etc/hostname. openSUSE's parent had a predilection for capitals and mixed case, a case-sensitive filesystem nuisance inherited by openSUSE for things like YaST2, SuSEfirewall2, and among others, /etc/HOSTNAME. Take a look around line 466 in /usr/share/YaST2/clients/save_network.rb for where the host of your linux-85q8 likely got created. cf. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=858908 -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org