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On 06/14/2011 04:06 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, 13.06.11 19:02, Denys Vlasenko (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dvlasenk@redhat.com">dvlasenk@redhat.com</a>) wrote:
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On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 12:37 -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 18:01 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
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<pre wrap="">We invoke sethostname() from inside systemd since that is one of the
most trivial system calls known to men and doing this with a
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<pre wrap="">binary is just absurd. This way we also can ensure that the hostname
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<pre wrap="">always initialised which is very useful for early boot logging and
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<pre wrap="">stuff. On systemd you get the guarantee that the hostname is always
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<pre wrap="">up if you run in userspace,
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You can't possibly know what kind of (possibly dynamic) hostname
admin might want to assign to his machine. The static hostname
may be as useless as default "(none)" which is set by kernel.
Anyway, logging with default hostname is not a catastrophe.
Why do you set up stuff no one asked you to?
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Changing a machine hostname at random times is just asking for trouble.
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I just tried it. So far flames don't shoot out of my notebook.
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Wow, that's convincing proof.
Lennart
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<font face="sans-serif">One question - does systemd run
/etc/rc.local script?</font><br>
If not where do I put my own little things I want to happen at boot
up.<br>
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